Re: can't install TeX (fwd)

[Ioannis Tambouras <ioannis@flinet.com>]

  Take a look at the bug archieves for textbin at
  <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/>. One of your errors must be
  that texbin actually depends on mfbasfnt.  
  


Ioannis Tambouras 
ioannis@flinet.com, West Palm Beach, Florida
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On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Eugene H. Sevinian wrote:

> Hi,
> I will be thankfull for any advice to solve this problem.
> 
> This is a part of the dselect's  output.
> I have found that 'libXt.so.6' is a link to 'libXt.so.6.0' in 
> /usr/X11R6/lib.  
> 
> Setting up texbin (3.1415-5) ...
> kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM manfnt.tfm
> Running MakeTeXPK manfnt.tfm
> mf \mode:=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input manfnt \</dev/null
> mf: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
> Metafont failed for some reason on manfnt.tfm
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> dpkg: error processing texbin (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex:
>  latex depends on texbin (>= 3.1415-5); however:
>   Package texbin is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing latex (--install):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ltxtool:
>  ltxtool depends on latex; however:
>   Package latex is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing ltxtool (--install):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  texbin
>  latex
>  ltxtool
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> 	Eugene Sevinian
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