Re: troubles with aptitude

[Søren Christensen <severino@ulvedalen.dk>]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:59:03AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:46:30 +0100
> Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:42:34 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote:
> > >I had added TeXLive for Debian for my Etch.install, all worked well,
> > >until an upgrade.
> > >
> > >So I decided to remove TeXLive again and install Tetex, but now aptitude
> > >seems to be caught in a  trap. How do I get aptitude free?
> > >
> > >This is the output from aptitude:
> > >Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> > >Preconfiguring packages ...
> > >(Reading database ... 156744 files and directories currently installed.)
> > >Removing dvipdfmx ...
> > >/var/lib/dpkg/info/dvipdfmx.postrm: line 5: /usr/sbin/update-texmf: No
> > >such file or directory
> > >/var/lib/dpkg/info/dvipdfmx.postrm: line 6: /usr/bin/mktexlsr: No such
> > >file or directory
> > >dpkg: error processing dvipdfmx (--purge):
> > > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> > > Removing preview-latex-style ...
> > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/preview-latex-style.postrm: line 29: mktexlsr:
> > > command not found
> > > dpkg: error processing preview-latex-style (--purge):
> > >  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> > >  Errors were encountered while processing:
> > >   dvipdfmx
> > >    preview-latex-style
> > >    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > >    A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> > >    Press return to continue.
> > >
> > >In order to remove dvipdfmx dpkg runs update-texmf and mktexlsr -- but
> > >these are no longer on the machine. How do I get these programs away or
> > >how do I solve this problem?
> > 
> > Can you re-install them?
> > 
> > Otherwise it's often possible to apply more force through using dpkg
> > directly :-)
> > 
> > /M
> > 
> 
> One thing I had to do in the past, when this has happened. create the
> file (touch file.name) or create the directory, so it can remove them.
> 

Thanks for the inputs, but the problem is, that dpkg calls
/usr/sbin/update-texmf so it can fix the tex-installation.

/severino