Bug#579000: texlive-base: fails to configure: fmtutil-sys failed: cannot find pdftexconfig.tex

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

On 24.04.10 Lionel Elie Mamane (lionel@mamane.lu) wrote:

> Package: texlive-base
> Version: 2009-8
> Severity: serious
> 
> Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
> ii  dpkg                      1.15.7.1       Debian package management system
> ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
> ii  luatex                    0.60.0-1       next generation TeX engine
> ii  mime-support              3.48-1         MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
> pn  tex-common                <none>         (no description available)
> ii  texlive-binaries          2009-5         Binaries for TeX Live
> ii  texlive-common            2009-8         TeX Live: Base component
> ii  texlive-doc-base          2009-2         TeX Live: TeX Live documentation
> 
texlive-base depends on tex-common. How did you manage to install it
w/o having tex-common installed?

> fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' ...
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) (INITEX)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>  (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/cp227.tcx)
> entering extended mode
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/plain/config/pdfetex.ini
> ! I can't find file `pdftexconfig.tex'.
> l.4 \input pdftexconfig.tex
>                            
There should be two incarnations, one in /usr/share/texlive-base/
the other in /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/ . Could you double check
if that file is there?

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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