(Norbert)
my apologies on my last reply. I am grateful for your assistance and also somewhat frustrated. M y apologies if that shows a bit as it's not directed at you & I think we both just want things to work. It's also a bit confusing in that it's stating that dpkg returned 1 (an error) and looks like it's failing when dpkg tries to --configure the package. but hey I'm fallible, human, and know less than I'd like about how debian packaging works so I defer to you. Here's the command, run as root in a single line and the output:
root@beaglebone:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 30G 9.5G 19G 34% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 49M 604K 49M 2% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p2 30G 9.5G 19G 34% /
tmpfs 122M 0 122M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 122M 0 122M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
/dev/mmcblk0p1 96M 78M 19M 82% /boot/uboot
root@beaglebone:~# xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012/Debian) (INITEX)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/xelatex.ini
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xetexconfig/unicode-letters.tex
loading Unicode properties and character classes)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/texsys.cfg)
./texsys.aux found
\@currdir set to: ./.
Assuming \openin and \input
have the same search path.
Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser.
catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters,
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
hacks, control, par, spacing, files, font encodings, lengths,
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Local config file fonttext.cfg used
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fonttext.cfg
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fonttext.ltx
=== Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omlenc.def)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.def)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omsenc.def)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ot1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ot1cmss.fd)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ot1cmtt.fd)))
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Local config file fontmath.cfg used
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontmath.cfg
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontmath.ltx
=== Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omlcmm.fd)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omscmsy.fd)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omxcmex.fd)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ucmr.fd)))
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Local config file preload.cfg used
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/preload.cfg
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/preload.ltx)) page nos., x-ref,
environments, center, verbatim, math definitions, boxes, title, sectioning,
contents, floats, footnotes, index, bibliography, output,
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Local configuration file hyphen.cfg used
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dumyhyph.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/zerohyph.tex))
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Beginning to dump on file xelatex.fmt
(format=xelatex 2014.6.4)
69820 strings of total length 61116
44389 memory locations dumped; current usage is 264&42421
3245 multiletter control sequences
\font\nullfont=nullfont
\font\OMX/cmex/m/n/10=cmex10
\font\tenln=line10
\font\tenlnw=linew10
\font\tencirc=lcircle10
\font\tencircw=lcirclew10
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/5=cmr5
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/7=cmr7
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/10=cmr10
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/5=cmmi5
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/7=cmmi7
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/10=cmmi10
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/5=cmsy5
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/7=cmsy7
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/10=cmsy10
3633 words of font info for 14 preloaded fonts
14 hyphenation exceptions
Hyphenation trie of length 6082 has 183 ops out of 35111
2 for language 1
181 for language 0
No pages of output.
Transcript written on xelatex.log.
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