El jue, 14 oct 2021 a las 12:46, The Wanderer (<wande...@fastmail.fm>) escribió: > > On 2021-10-14 at 10:57, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > > Hello, everyone. > > > > I'm having problems installing texlive in my PC. I'm using unstable > > here. > > That may be the root problem, or at least, the best place to solve it. > The basic rule of running unstable is "if it breaks, you get to keep all > the pieces". IMO, no one should ever run unstable on a computer they > *need* to be functional.
Yes, I know the risks :-) My office computer is in stable for that reason. This is my home computer. Anyway, I'm extremely conservative with upgrades, and do not upgrade if I think I'm going to break something important, This may be the first major issue I've had for years in this particular machine. > > Preparing to unpack .../texlive-base_2021.20210921-1_all.deb ... > > dpkg: error processing archive > > /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-base_2021.20210921-1_all.deb > > (--unpack): > > conffile name 'remove-on-upgrade /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config/config' is > > not an absolute pathname > > I'm not an expert on this part of the system, but to my eye, this looks > as if there's an syntactically-invalid entry in the list of conffiles > for that package. > > If I'm not mistaken, that list is defined in > '/var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.conffiles'. On my system (running > testing, with version 2020.20210202-3), that file contains two lines, > neither of which starts with 'remove-on-upgrade' nor matches that path. > Thanks for the suggestion. The file does not exist in my system. I checked the contents of the deb file, and nothing. I only found a mention to dvipdfm in etc/libpaper.d/texlive-base Tried to find if it may be installed by some other package, but searching contents of packages in the debian web site, I found no match. Victor
