Only quick before leaving for the mountains dpkg --purge --force-depends texlive-lang-other dpkg -i ..../texlive-lang-other... might help.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2013/06/16, at 1:06, Calum Mackay <calum.mac...@cdmnet.org> wrote: > thanks much, Norbert, > >> that looks all very strange ... > > sorry... > >> Is texlive-lang-other correctly instaled? > > aha! that seems to be the problem. > > >> Can you run >> debsums texlive-lang-other > > > calum@getz:~$ debsums texlive-lang-other > debsums: package texlive-lang-other is not installed > > > calum@getz:~$ dpkg -l texlive-lang-other > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Architecture Description > +++-==============-============-============-================================= > iU texlive-lang-o 2013.2013053 all TeX Live: Other languages > > > calum@getz:~$ sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-other > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > texlive-lang-other is already the newest version. > > > I wonder how it got in that state? > > >> You might fix errors by reinstalling texlive-lang-other. > > mmm, there's something badly wrong here... > > calum@getz:~$ sudo apt-get update > ... > > calum@getz:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install texlive-lang-other > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded. > 33 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. > E: Internal Error, No file name for texlive-lang-other:amd64 > > > calum@getz:~$ apt-show-versions texlive-lang-other > texlive-lang-other/sid uptodate 2013.20130530-1 > > > calum@getz:~$ sudo dpkg -i > /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-lang-other_2013.20130530-1_all.deb > (Reading database ... 282627 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace texlive-lang-other 2013.20130530-1 (using > .../texlive-lang-other_2013.20130530-1_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement texlive-lang-other ... > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-other: > texlive-lang-other depends on tex-common (>= 3); however: > Package tex-common is not configured yet. > > dpkg: error processing texlive-lang-other (--install): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > texlive-lang-other > > > calum@getz:~$ sudo dpkg --configure tex-common > Setting up tex-common (4.03) ... > Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. > Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... > updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in > /tmp/updmap.ePqH31fb > Please include this file if you report a bug. > > Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d > causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension > .dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory > > dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > tex-common > > > calum@getz:~$ sudo cat /tmp/updmap.ePqH31fb > updmap is using the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order): > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg > updmap is using the following updmap.cfg file for writing changes: > /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg > dvips output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap" > pdftex output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap" > dvipdfmx output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap" > pxdvi output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pxdvi/updmap" > > ERROR: The following map file(s) couldn't be found: > arevvn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > chartervn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > cjhebrew.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > cmbrightvn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > concretevn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > grotesqvn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > nectec.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > nf.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > syriac.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > tlwg.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > txttvn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > urwvn.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > vnrother.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > vnrtext.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > vntopia.map (in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg) > > Did you run mktexlsr? > > You can disable non-existent map entries using the option > --syncwithtrees. > > > > any ideas how I might recover, please? > > > thanks much. > > cheers, > c. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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