On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, Shayan Doust wrote: > Running "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1" again, and then trying again for > texlive-base, spits out the > same issue I've reported.
Interesting, I don't see that in my case ... $ pkg-reconfigure libpaper1 Replacing config file /etc/papersize with new version tl-paper: setting paper size for context to letter: /var/lib/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys-paper.tex tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to letter: /var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-paper.cfg tl-paper: setting paper size for dvips to letter: /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps tl-paper: setting paper size for pdftex to letter: /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/tex-ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex tl-paper: setting paper size for xdvi to letter: /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --refresh. This may take some time... ... $ Can you please do for i in xdvi|pdftex|dvips|dvipdfmx|context ; do echo "=== $i ===" tl-paper get $i done and send the output? And then we continue debugging. It fails in tl-paper get $prg calls and thus it seems something in your configurations files for one of these programs (or all) seem to be broken. Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info Fujitsu Research Labs + IFMGA Guide + TU Wien + TeX Live + Debian Dev GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13