Frank, unfortunately I needed a working tex system, sorry. I found this quick fix:
cp /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf.dpkg-dist /etc/texmf/ dpkg --force-all --configure -a [not that, during the upgrade, I had asked not to overwrite the texmf.cnf that has been locally modified] That did it for me, and I cannot reproduce the bug anymore. my dependencies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache rdepends tetex-base | xargs dpkg --list 2>/dev/null | grep '^ii' | uniq ii fig2ps 1.3.2-1 Converts xfig files into ps, eps or pdf file ii jadetex 3.13-6 generator of printable output from SGML or X ii lacheck 1.26-8 A simple syntax checker for LaTeX ii latex2html 2002-2-1-20050114-3 LaTeX to HTML translator ii linuxdoc-tools 0.9.21-0.1 SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only. ii pgf 0.65-1 TeX Portable Graphic Format ii tetex-base 3.0-9 Basic library files of teTeX ii tetex-bin 3.0-9 The teTeX binary files ii tetex-doc 3.0-9 The documentation component of the Debian te ii tetex-extra 3.0-9 Additional library files of teTeX ii tex-common 0.8 Common infrastructure for using and building ii texinfo 4.8-1 Documentation system for on-line information [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache rdepends tetex-bin | xargs dpkg --list 2> /dev/null | grep '^ii' | uniq ii a2ps 4.13b-5 GNU a2ps - 'Anything to PostScript' converter and pretty-printer ii debianutils 2.15 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian ii dvidvi 1.0-7 Manipulate .dvi files ii fig2ps 1.3.2-1 Converts xfig files into ps, eps or pdf files using LaTeX for pr ii jadetex 3.13-6 generator of printable output from SGML or XML using Jade ii latex2html 2002-2-1-20050114-3 LaTeX to HTML translator ii libkpathsea3 2.1-1 path search library for teTeX (runtime part) ii libkpathsea4 3.0-9 path search library for teTeX (runtime part) ii linuxdoc-tools 0.9.21-0.1 SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only. ii tetex-base 3.0-9 Basic library files of teTeX ii tetex-bin 3.0-9 The teTeX binary files ii tetex-extra 3.0-9 Additional library files of teTeX ii tex-common 0.8 Common infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian ii tex-skak 1.2-5 Chess fonts for TeX/LaTeX ii texinfo 4.8-1 Documentation system for on-line information and printed output [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache rdepends tetex-extra | xargs dpkg --list 2> /dev/null | grep '^ii' | uniq ii fig2ps 1.3.2-1 Converts xfig files into ps, eps or pdf file ii jadetex 3.13-6 generator of printable output from SGML or X ii latex-beamer 3.01-1 LaTeX class to produce presentations ii latex2html 2002-2-1-20050114-3 LaTeX to HTML translator ii linuxdoc-tools 0.9.21-0.1 SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only. ii pdfjam 1.20-1 collection of PDF document handling utilitie ii tetex-base 3.0-9 Basic library files of teTeX ii tetex-bin 3.0-9 The teTeX binary files ii tetex-doc 3.0-9 The documentation component of the Debian te ii tetex-extra 3.0-9 Additional library files of teTeX ii wv 1.0.2-0.1 Convert and preview Microsoft Word documents Thanks, Valerio On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 21:24 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Valerio Aimale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: tetex-bin > > Version: 3.0-9 > > Followup-For: Bug #334660 > > > > I have the same problem in updating tetex-bin, as alreay reported. I'm > > just adding my info with the hope that it will help to solve the bug. > > > > My hypothesis is that it could be due to a locally modified > > /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf before the update. > > Can you reproduce the bug, i.e. does it occur again? If yes, then > please edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst, so that the first > line is changed from > > #!/bin/sh -e > > to > > #!/bin/sh -ex > > and then try again, but redirect the output and stderr into a file, like > this: > > dpkg --configure -a 2>&1 | tee tetex-bin.log > > > Furthermore, did you see Marc's posting where he reported which packages > depend on tetex? It would be good if you could compare which of them > are also installed on your system. > > Regards, Frank
