Bug#537978: texlive-latex-base: update fails to build font
>>>>> "Hilmar" == Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:
Hilmar>
>> I do not believe this bug is the same as #534199, although boht
>> involve fmutil-sys somehow.
>>
Hilmar> So, why do you think not? You have the same error messages as
Hilmar> in this bug report and you probably have the unfixed version
Hilmar> on your hard disc.
Hilmar>
Hilmar> The bug is fixed in 2005.dfsg.2-13 of texlive-base-bin and
Hilmar> 2005.dfsg.3-2 of texlive-latex-extra. You have
Hilmar> texlive-latex-base 2005.dfsg.3-1, hence you should see the
Hilmar> bug. Please show the output of: dpkg -l "texlive*"
Here is the output, which does indeed indicate the versions you mention:
rgristroph-austin:~# dpkg -l "texlive*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-===============-==============================================
iU texlive 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live p
ii texlive-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Essential programs and files
ii texlive-base-bi 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: Essential binaries
ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Base component
ii texlive-context 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: ConText macro package
ii texlive-doc-bas 2005.dfsg.2-1 TeX Live: Base documentation
un texlive-doc-en <none> (no description available)
un texlive-extra-u <none> (no description available)
un texlive-fonts-e <none> (no description available)
ii texlive-fonts-r 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Recommended fonts
iF texlive-latex-b 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages
un texlive-latex-e <none> (no description available)
iU texlive-latex-r 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
un texlive-math-ex <none> (no description available)
ii texlive-metapos 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: MetaPost (and Metafont) drawing pack
ii texlive-pdfetex 2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: pdfTeX
rgristroph-austin:~#
The reason why I presume this is not the same as #534199, is that in
the /tmp/tetex.fmutil.* log file, the file doesn't stop at the "file
older than 5 years" message. The message is a warning, and the output
of pdfetex continues after it.
However, after digging through some directories in a debian mirror, I
got the texlive-base-bin_2005.dfsg.2-13_i386.deb file and I installed
it with "dpkg -i" (the output above is from before that). The install
worked, and latex seemed mostly working afterwards.
(I was trying to install texlive in the first place, because an
apt-get update had broken tetex, so that it had empty fonts or
something and produced mostly white pages when the dvi was translated
to pdf.)
Thanks for everyone's help.
I think this bug should be left open until the newer packages are
available through a normal apt-get.
--Rob
P.S. Why do you think Donald Knuth decided to warn himself against
processing files older than 5 years ? The old guy probably has many
of those, right ?
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