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Re: troubles with aptitude [solved]



I'm not sure if I can explain how things were fixed.

inside aptitude I kept dvipdfmx forced it to be broken then reinstalled
tetex.

Thanks.

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 06:17:12PM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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