Hi Ronen,
severity 668510 normal
tags 668510 + unreproducible moreinfo
thanks
On Do, 12 Apr 2012, Ronen Abravanel wrote:
> * What led up to the situation?
> Installation,
> "apt-get install tex-common "
What was the state of tex-common *before* installation?
removed or purged?
> AFTER I failed over and over again with normal installation, I tried to
> extract
> the missing file (00tex.cnf) from the .deb file, and copy it to
> /etc/texmf/hyphen.d/00tex.cnf
etc etc.
My wild guess, coming also from what you wrote here:
> Also, I tried to remove any tex-related package, delete /etc/texmf and
> install
> again, and the problam is the same.
Did you *PURGE* the package?
Because if you *purge* the package and then remove the remaining files
manually in /etc/texmf, then a reinstallation will NOT reinstatiate
these files, because it was *your* wish to remove these files.
That is Debian policy.
So my theory is that you just simply shot your system by removing
conffiles that are still maintained by dpkg, instead of purging
the packages.
In case you don't udnerstand the difference between remove and purge,
I recommend one of the many Debian handbooks or quick starters.
Now,how to *SOLVE* your problem:
First I would say:
dpkg -force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/tex-common_3.7_all.deb
after that
apt-get install texlive
that should work.
If that does NOT work, then you have delete MORE conffiles then only
tex-common. In this case the following procedure might show useful:
Search for all package in removed but NOT purged state:
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep ^rc
then search for packages like tex-common etc
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep ^rc | grep tex
select the packages that are TeX related (tex-common, any texlive-* etc)
and call
aptitude purge <those packages>
after that apt-get install texlive
Best wishes
Norbert
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