I did as you suggested: root> ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 19 2005 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf
root> rm /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf root> ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ls: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf: No such file or directory Now I get this: root> apt-get install tetex-bin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: tetex-base Suggested packages: tetex-extra gs-gpl gs-esp gs-afpl gv postscript-viewer xpdf-reader pdf-viewer texi2html dvipng chktex lacheck rubber sam2p Recommended packages: tetex-doc dialog perl-tk The following NEW packages will be installed: tetex-base tetex-bin 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/26.0MB of archives. After unpacking 86.4MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package tetex-base. (Reading database ... 67635 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tetex-base (from .../tetex-base_3.0-15_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package tetex-bin. Unpacking tetex-bin (from .../tetex-bin_3.0-14_i386.deb) ... Setting up tetex-base (3.0-15) ... done Creating config file /etc/texdoctk/texdocrc with new version Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-14) ... Creating config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf with new version Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ... Running updmap-sys. This may take some time. ... updmap failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/tetex.updmap.XXjv8Wcy Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tetex-bin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root> ls -l /tmp/tetex.updmap.XXjv8Wcy 4 -rw------- 1 root root 46 Mar 16 09:58 /tmp/tetex.updmap.XXjv8Wcy root> cat !$ cat /tmp/tetex.updmap.XXjv8Wcy updmap-sys: config file updmap.cfg not found. -- Steve Lane System, Network and Security Administrator Doudna Lab Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Group UC Berkeley On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:41:58PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > Steve Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > drsteve> dpkg -l tex-common > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > > uppercase=bad) > > ||/ Name Version Description > > +++-============================-============================-======================================================================== > > ii tex-common 0.15 Common > > infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian > > > > drsteve> ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf > > 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 19 2005 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf > > -> /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf > > Ah. This file shouldn't be a symlink, but a real file. Hm, did we ever > have that setup, maybe during sarge development? Anyway, when > update-fmtutil tries to generate that file, it should either > > - write to the destination of the link, or > > - simply replace the symlink by a real file, or > > - stop with an error, > > instead of doing nothing as it currently does. > > I think I'm going to change it so that it gives an error (it'd be > surprising if local customization in /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf suddenly > stopped working). > > So to fix your bug, simply remove the symlink. In case that you have > some local customization in /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf: The real conffile > is /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf, please make your changes there, or > better, if you only have *additions*, create a new file with extension > *.cnf in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/ and place your additions there. > > By the way, this is explained in README.Debian (in text and html > format). > > > Regards, Frank > > -- > Frank K?ster > Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. > Z?rich > Debian Developer (teTeX) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
