Re: tetex-extra problem

[Christoph Martin <martin@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de>]

Gilbert Laycock writes:
 > 
 > I've upgraded 10 or so machines over the past couple of months, all
 > with tetex-extra. I got exactly this error on about 2 of them; the
 > upgrade worked OK on the others.
 > 
 > /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/frhyph.tex
 > is missing on the machines where the upgrade failed. But it is also
 > missing on the other machines where the upgrade worked. Instead there
 > is now
 > /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/fr19998t.tex
 > 
 > The problem is that fr19998t.tex is the correct one, and the
 > language.dat file has changed to take this into account. My guess is
 > that when upgrading, and it asked whether you wanted to keep or
 > replace /etc/texmf/langauge.dat you opted to keep the old one, with.
 > To fix, simply edit language.dat to use fr19998t.tex instead of
 > frhyph.tex (or you should have langauge.dat.dpkg-dist there to refer
 > to), and then run
 >  dpkg --configure -a

That is exactly what I would have suggested next ;)

C