On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:17:11PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been caught by (closed) bug #531595 > ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531595 ) > > It says it's closed, and fixed - and was important to fix in etch, since > that's where the problem is/was. > > However, texlive-latex-base still refuses to install on this etch > machine. > > Can anyone help me understand what's going on in that bug thread, and > how I can make it install? Do I need to add an additional repo? > > And yes, I know upgrading to lenny is the real answer - this is one of > the steps towards that ... The bug has been fixed in 2005.dfsg.2-13, which was uploaded to oldstable-proposed-updates. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to have made it's way into oldstable, as is revealed here: [kumar@bluemoon ~] rmadison texlive-bin texlive-bin | 2005.dfsg.2-12 | etch-m68k | source texlive-bin | 2005.dfsg.2-12 | oldstable | source texlive-bin | 2005.dfsg.2-13 | oldstable-proposed-updates | source texlive-bin | 2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny2 | stable | source texlive-bin | 2009-5 | testing | source texlive-bin | 2009-5 | unstable | source Contrast this with the "stable" version, which has migrated from stable-proposed-updates to stable. You should be able to grab the fixed package from the oldstable-proposed-updates section of the archive. Someone can correct me if my analysis is incorrect. HTH. Kumar -- Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. (Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)
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