Bug#425106: texlive-pdfetex: upgrade fails, can't find /usr/bin/etex?
Hi Norbert,
thanks for the quick reply.
> On Sam, 19 Mai 2007, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> > I was doing a regular apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and got stuck
> > over the package 'tipa'. I've tried removing it and get clobbered
> > by texlive-pdfetex trying to configure itself, so I'm filing here.
>
> Are you using etch or sid? On sid we are at texlive 2007 ...
This system is only using 'lenny' packages, from official d.o mirrors.
% cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib
non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
> > Setting up texlive-pdfetex (2005.dfsg.2-12) ...
> > Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
> > Building format(s) --byfmt etex. This may take some time...
> > fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
> > /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.Iwa27687
> > Please include this file if you report a bug.
> > ... apt-get log truncated ...
> >
> > # cat /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.Iwa27687
> > fmtutil: format `etex' not available.
>
> This is strange.
>
> Can you tell us which files you have in
> /etc/texmf/fmt.d
There is some kind of problem there, a not-yet-installed config...
% ls -lrt /etc/texmf/fmt.d
total 10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1364 2006-08-24 20:57 00tex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3328 2006-09-08 08:14 01tetex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 565 2006-11-22 22:19 50cyrtexinfo.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 389 2007-01-15 22:12
10texlive-latex-base.cnf.dpkg-new
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446 2007-02-21 21:52 10texlive-base-bin.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 401 2007-02-21 21:52 10texlive-pdfetex.cnf
> and whether there is a file
> /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdfetex.cnf
> it should contain lines for etex.
It does...
% cat /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdfetex.cnf
#
# 10texlive-pdfetex.cnf
#
# You really can change stuff in this file, but it is NOT RECOMMENDED
# to play around with this file if you do not know what you are doing!
# Please leave this comment!
# -_- DebPkgProvidedMaps -_-
#
etex pdfetex language.def -translate-file=cp227.tcx
*etex.ini
pdfetex pdfetex language.def -translate-file=cp227.tcx
*pdfetex.ini
> Then check
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> for ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdftex.cnf
> it should be included.
It seems to be included, if you meant "10texlive-pdfetex.cnf"
% grep From /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tex.cnf
### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base-bin.cnf
### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdfetex.cnf
### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/50cyrtexinfo.cnf
% grep End /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
### End of file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tex.cnf
### End of file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base-bin.cnf
### End of file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdfetex.cnf
### End of file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/50cyrtexinfo.cnf
Cheers
Vince
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