Bug#419565: context: configuration fails

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Tamas K Papp <tpapp@Princeton.EDU> wrote:

> Package: context
> Version: 2007.01.23-3
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Configuration fails, the log is below.  I read similar bug reports, so
> I also tried installing after removing every package that uses
> /var/lib/texmf and deleting this directory.

Did you delete the directory while even tex-common was removed?  You
really shouldn't have done that, only files with extensions "fmt log mem
base" in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ (mind the last component!) should be
removed. 

> The logfile:
>
> TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich'
> TeXExec | using existing database
> TeXExec | using mp engine mpost
> TeXExec | using mps format path /var/lib/texmf/web2c
> TeXExec | generating mps format metafun
> This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INIMP)
> (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
> ! I can't find file `metafun'.
> <*> metafun

I can reproduce this when I move away
/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp 

Does this file exist on your system?  If not, does

apt-get --reinstall install context

help?

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