Bug#408357: tetex-base - fails to install: update-texmf: command not found

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

tags 408357 moreinfo unreproducible
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Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:

> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 3.0.dfsg.3-5
> Severity: serious
>
>> Setting up tetex-base (3.0.dfsg.3-5) ...
>> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
>> debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
>> debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
>> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
>> debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
>> debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype

You didn't snip this - I guess you're not implying that this is
tetex-base's fault? 

> [...]
>> Creating config file /etc/texdoctk/texdocrc with new version
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst: line 899: update-texmf: command not found
>> dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--configure):
>>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
> [...]

(509)[10:55:55]frank@riesling:~$ dlocate bin/update-texmf
tex-common: /usr/sbin/update-texmf
(510)[10:55:59]frank@riesling:~$ apt-cache show tetex-base | grep Depends
Depends: ucf (>= 1.02), tex-common (>= 0.12)
(511)[10:56:24]frank@riesling:~$ 

Please send the output of

dpkg -l tetex-base tex-common
dpkg -S tex-common
echo $PATH 

(the last of course as root, or however you installed the package.)

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)