Re: errors installing texinfo, tetex-base and tex-common in debian SID
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 12:16 +0200, Antonio Toral wrote:
> Hi, I was updating my debian sytem and it gave an error when trying to install
> these packages. The error was in the 3 cases the same: the install script
> tried to use mktemp but the command wasn't found. After I installed "mktemp"
> the installation went fine :)
>
> so... maybe a dependency to mktemp should be added for these packages.
No, it is your system that was broken since the mktemp package is
essential and required:
ralf@skye:~$ apt-cache show mktemp
Package: mktemp
Essential: yes
Priority: required
[...]
One can always assume that such packages are present.
cheerio
ralf
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