Bug#420490: texlive-base-bin: /etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps missing
Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007-5
Severity: normal
After a recent upgrade, dvips started to complain:
"dvips: no match for special paper size found; using default"
and bounding boxes were generally wrong.
This seems to be due to the fact that /etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps
is missing on my machine. The package texlive-base-bin includes this file,
so I tried "apt-get install --reinstall texlive-base-bin"
but this didn't help, some magic in the postinst script seems to remove it.
I extracted this file from the .deb by hand and now
everything seems fine again.
(Another file included in the package but missing after
installation is /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
This is mentioned in bug #420139 but I don't understand the message
of the discussion there. Is this file no longer necessary? Is my
installation screwed up in some way?)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on:
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.5-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler0c2 0.4.5-5.1 PDF rendering library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.3-3 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.6-2 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii mime-support 3.39-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii texlive-common 2007-4 TeX Live: Base component
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin recommends:
ii perl-tk 1:804.027-7 Perl module providing the Tk graph
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii ucf 2.0021 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages texlive-base-bin is related to:
pn tetex-base <none> (no description available)
pi tetex-bin 2007-4 TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
pi tetex-extra 2007-4 TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
tex-common/singleuser: true
--
Meik Hellmund
Institut fuer Mathematik, Uni Leipzig
e-mail: Meik.Hellmund@math.uni-leipzig.de
http://www.math.uni-leipzig.de/~hellmund
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