15 Oct 2021, 02:41 by victor_mu...@uchile.cl:
> El jue, 14 oct 2021 a las 13:35, Andrew M.A. Cater > (<amaca...@einval.com>) escribió: > >>> >>> >> It might be worth checking what packages you have installed. If you >> can manage to, uninstall them (or use dpkg --purge to purge texlive-base >> then retry. >> > > Thanks for the idea. It didn't work. texlive-base is not installed, so > purge di nothing. I rechecked the packages installed. Some tex-related > packages still had configuration files, so i purged them all. Then I > started again, installing tex-common, texlive-binaries, and then > texlive-base. And here it fails again as above. > > >> >> Also, as ever, my advice would be to use stable unless there is a >> really compelling reason: unstable can change radically and >> breakages happen. >> > > Yes, I tend to be careful before upgrades and have managed to have no > major issues for years. This is my home PC anyway, so I have more > freedom for failure. > But, well, latex is fairly critical for me :-) > I'm running unstable with an intact tex-live install, so a dpkg misconfiguration definitely looks like the issue. Any `remove on upgrade' would be rare and more probably issued by the incoming upgrade package, not a standard config in dpkg. Cheers! Harry.
