Package: texlive-science-doc Version: 2017.20170809-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
During the process of updating some texlive packages, I ended up in a situation where a package was trying to overwrite a file from another texlive package. I'm not sure what the correct process is here, but should texlive-science conflict with texlive-math-extra so that this can't happen? I did get into this situation by running an apt-get install command to try and only upgrade a few texlive packages without updating everything. So using apt- get upgrade may have avoided this situation? I don't really know. Cheers, Russell sudo apt --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libavformat56 libexiv2-13 libgif4 libjson-c3:i386 libnm-gtk-common libnma- common libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 linux- image-3.13-1-amd64 linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 linux-image-4.0.0-2-amd64 linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64 texlive-math-extra tla tla-doc Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: texlive-science texlive-science-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: texlive-science texlive-science-doc 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2114 not upgraded. 149 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 52.4 MB of archives. After this operation, 73.2 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 texlive-science all 2017.20170809-1 [3,085 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 texlive-science-doc all 2017.20170809-1 [49.3 MB] Fetched 52.4 MB in 4s (11.2 MB/s) (Reading database ... 756895 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../texlive-science_2017.20170809-1_all.deb ... Unpacking texlive-science (2017.20170809-1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive- science_2017.20170809-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/amstex.1.gz', which is also in package texlive-math-extra 2016.20161008-1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Preparing to unpack .../texlive-science-doc_2017.20170809-1_all.deb ... Unpacking texlive-science-doc (2017.20170809-1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-science- doc_2017.20170809-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/amstex/base/README.gz', which is also in package texlive-math-extra 2016.20161008-1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-science_2017.20170809-1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-science-doc_2017.20170809-1_all.deb -- Package-specific info: IMPORTANT INFORMATION: We will only consider bug reports concerning the packaging of TeX Live as relevant. If you have problems with combination of packages in a LaTeX document, please consult your local TeX User Group, the comp.text.tex user group, the author of the original .sty file, or any other help resource. In particular, bugs that are related to up-upstream, i.e., neither Debian nor TeX Live (upstream), but the original package authors, will be closed immediately. *** The Debian TeX Team is *not* a LaTeX Help Desk *** If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries (latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the error in your report. Please run your example with (pdf)latex -recorder ... (or any other program that supports -recorder) and send us the generated file with the extension .fls, it lists all the files loaded during the run and can easily explain problems induced by outdated files in your home directory. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures! If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem), you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that can be found at http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html (english) or http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/mini.html (german) ################################## minimal input file ################################## other files ###################################### List of ls-R files -rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80 Jul 28 2012 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1895 Aug 13 14:10 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jan 17 2017 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Aug 8 03:32 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Aug 8 03:32 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 May 20 2014 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R ###################################### Config files -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1464 Jun 2 18:21 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Aug 8 03:32 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Aug 8 03:32 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2887 Aug 13 14:10 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat ###################################### Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/ total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Jun 8 2010 mktex.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1464 Jun 2 18:21 texmf.cnf ###################################### md5sums of texmf.d ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf 055e06548bac99958d8ab2dd1248f2b4 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80tex4ht.cnf 1df66bc319cec731e202eaf39f5d85e1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/96JadeTeX.cnf -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages texlive-science-doc depends on: ii tex-common 6.06 ii texlive-base 2017.20170808-1 texlive-science-doc recommends no packages. texlive-science-doc suggests no packages. Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii ucf 3.0036 Versions of packages tex-common suggests: ii debhelper 10.2.5 Versions of packages texlive-science-doc is related to: ii tex-common 6.06 ii texlive-binaries 2017.20170613.44572-4 -- debconf information excluded