On Fri, 2 May 2008 09:21:50 +0200
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> > Not replacing deleted config
> > file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
>
> You seem to have removed the config files, sorry, there is no way
> around that. If you have done that without knowing you have to install
> tex-common via dpkg and --install-missing (AFAIR) command line to get
> the removed config files back.
I don't recall doing much anything with those config files,
but a run of:
# as root
% zgrep -h "tex-common" /var/log/dpkg.log* | sort -g | gzip > /tmp/tc.log.gz
...(attached) shows this may have been an issue for 6 months; odds are your
informed opinion is better than my fumbling.
On 'dpkg' and '--install-missing', there's no such option, but it's a good clue,
and 'man dpkg' has a '--force-confmiss'; let's try that:
% dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/tex-common_1.11_all.deb
{...}
update-texmf: Basic configuration file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf missing.
{...}
Hmm, maybe the config files are in a different package. 'dlocate'
reports those are in 'tetex-bin':
% dlocate /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf /etc/texmf/ texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
tetex-bin: /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
tetex-bin: /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
tetex-bin: /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
tetex-bin: /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
tetex-bin: /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
tetex-bin: /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
tetex-bin: /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
Now here I find there was no 'tetex-bin' in my cache, (a recent space
saving backup), so here I installed the latest with 'apt-get'.
Try again with the latest 'tetex-bin':
% dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_2007-14_all.deb ; echo $?
(Reading database ... 234008 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace tetex-bin 2007-14 (using .../tetex-bin_2007-14_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tetex-bin ...
Setting up tetex-bin (2007-14) ...
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Looks OK, did it work? No:
% ls -l /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
ls: cannot access /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf: No such file or directory
Maybe the new 'tetex-bin' is faulty...
% dlocate -conf tetex-bin
Package tetex-bin not installed or has no conffiles.
# update the 'dlocate' database, in case something has changed.
% update-dlocatedb
% dlocate /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf ; echo $?
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It looks like 'tetex-bin' is missing some files, or it used to have them
and they're now in some other package. What package has those config files?
HTH...
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