Thanks for the hint, but it's only a work around and not a fix. Even it worked for me, everybody who is upgrading from a gutsy tribe with texlive-base-bin version 2007-12 and texlive-base 2007-10 will run into this problem. As you can see at bug report #147310 none of them will have the idea to read a debian bug report about tex.
A fixed release should repair a broken configuration by itself, without user interaction and failure of dpkg. ps. the working work around for me was this: # dpkg --force-confmiss -i texlive-base-bin_2007-12ubuntu3_i386.deb texlive-base_2007-10_all.deb texlive-latex-base_2007-10_all.deb texlive-latex-extra_2007-3_all.deb -- texlive language packets cannot be installede https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92206 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs