Bug#382861: installing texlive over tetex fails
Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:05:52AM +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 23:51 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
>> > Package: texlive
>> > Version: 2005.dfsg.1-1
>> > Severity: grave
>> > Justification: renders package unusable
>>
>> Thanks for your report.
>>
>> > -----------------------------------------------------------
>> > Настраивается пакет texlive-base-bin (2005.dfsg.1-1) ...
>> > Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
>> > Building format(s) --all . This may take some time...
>> > fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
>> > /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.dtq18928
>> > Please include this file if you report a bug.
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Please send us this file.
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot do it now... I did not copy it from /tmp/ to a
> safer place so it was removed after a reboot. But I have looked
> through it several times and I recall that all the formats supplied
> with the base installation of texlive were built without any errors.
> The only error message was about omega format which is not in the base
> installation of texlive but was included in the teTeX distro.
> I copied that message to the bug report. I am afraid this is the only
> information that I can provide by now, I am sorry.
This is quite unfortunate. Update tests teTeX -> TeX Live belong to the
usual testing procedure that Norbert (main TeX Live maintainer) is
doing. So it would be interesting which special situation occurred on
your system.
> Another thing that can be useful is that the version of tetex I had
> was from the stable distro (i.e. 2.0.2c-8).
This, however, is very interesting and might well be the special
situation mentioned above. Do I understand you correctly that you were
running a testing system with teTeX from stable and then tried to update
that to TeX Live from unstable?
If so, then this update path is currently not supported. Whether or not
it will be supported for Sarge->Etch once Etch gets released hasn't been
decided yet.
>> > I think that this happened because of some configuration files left
>> > from the tetex installation in /etc/texmf/fmt.d
>>
>> Possible. Please send us the output of the following commands:
>>
>> ls -l /etc/texmf/fmt.d
>> ls -l /var/lib/tex-common/fmtutil-cnf/
>
> This will not have much sense now because to get texlive working I had
> to purge all the remainings of tetex. But again I remember that in
> /etc/texmf/fmt.d there was a config file of teTeX that mentioned omega
> format. When I purged remainings of all tetex-* packages manually
> (dpkg --force-depends --purge) and installed texlive packages anew
> everything went without any errors.
Again very unfortunate.
> By the way, another question about omega.
[...]
> I did not install texlive-omega. dpkg -S ebcdic.ocp says
> texlive-base: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/omega/ocp/misc/ebcdic.ocp
I don't have my development machine here, so I can't check this. Are the
other files from texlive-base, too?
cheerio
ralf
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