Bug#419111: context: Fails to install: ctxfmtutil: line 12: kpsewhich: command not found

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:

> merge 419111 419059
> thanks
>
> Sorry for filing duplicate bugs.

Why do you think those bugs are the same?  The error messages are
completely differnt.

>> Your package is failing to install with the following error:
>> Setting up context (2007.01.23-3) ...
>> /usr/bin/ctxfmtutil: line 12: kpsewhich: command not found
>> /usr/bin/ctxfmtutil: line 13: kpsewhich: command not found
>> Warning: engine pdftex not present, but specified in the config file!
>> Warning: Will not build the formats based on this engine!
>> /usr/bin/ctxfmtutil: line 112: mktexlsr: command not found
>> dpkg: error processing context (--configure):
>>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
>
> I'm not sure how it happened, but now I can't reproduce it.  It might be
> related to the texlive-base-bin failing to uninstall.

We need the part of the reportbug text which you didn't send:

dpkg -l tex-common ruby texlive-base-bin texlive-base texlive-metapost lmodern

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