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

[Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 06:54:19AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> On So, 25 Apr 2010, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>>>> does reinstalling of
>>>>         texlive-binaries
>>>> and
>>>>        texlive-base
>>>> help?

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

> It seems aptitude's idea of reinstalling is not my idea of it: it does
> *not* re-unpack it, "only" reconfigures it. So I manually ran:

> $ sudo dpkg --install tex-common_2.07_all.deb texlive-binaries_2009-5_amd64.deb texlive-base_2009-8_all.deb

> And now tex-common and texlive-binaries succeeded to configure

This, BTW suggests that the postinst of texlive-binaries is not
idempotent (policy 6.2).

-- 
Lionel