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Bug#384945: texlive system will not install [solved?]



Hi Ross!

On Mon, 04 Sep 2006, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I was finally able to clean up my system by using dpkg with

Good to hear.

> I then purged every package with texlive in the name (are there any
> others I should zap?).  I have not yet tried reinstalling; the mailing

No, all the packages have texlive at the beginning of the name.

> particular, see bug #385784 for a diagnosis and 2 possible solutions
> to the apparent aptitude error (which was actually in the apt
> libraries).

Uff, that was a long read. 

> > 2. It is strange that there is only one ls-R file.  Please send us the
> >    output of
> 
> Well, things were in a pretty bad state.  As noted in the previous
> response to this post, mktexlsr wasn't on the system any more.

I assume so. Some of the ls-R files are generated with the mktexlsr run,
so as this didn't succeed, there are none.

> > 5. As far as I understood, dvipdfmx calls mktexlsr unconditionally, this
> >    should probably be a separate bug.
> 
> That would certainly add safety.  However, this only became an issue
> because other dependencies were messed up, so adding tests might be
> overkill.

Still, there is dh_installtex which automatically creates proper
snippets.

> P.S. I will report here after doing a reinstall.

Thanks a lot!!!

Best wishes

Norbert

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