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

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Lionel,

On So, 25 Apr 2010, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> No, I didn't recently purge tetex-base. The operation was done was
> (among many other upgrades, filtering for things with "tex" in the
> name, removing things where the only match for "tex" was in the word
> "text". In particular, nothing there with "tetex" in the name):

Strange ...

> Now texlive-binaries doesn't configure, with the same symptoms.

What I don't understand why tex-common wasn'tconfigured. Can you
check that it is:
	dpkg -l tex-common texlive-base
and send the output.

Best wishes

Norbert
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