forcemerge 419381 419451 thanks Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: texlive-base-bin > Version: 2007-3 > Severity: important > > As the subject says: on my system, after upgrading from the old tetex > packages, xdvi doesn't work any more: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/research$ xdvi teach.dvi > Can't exec "xdvi.bin": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/xdvi line 87. > xdvi: xdvi.bin terminated abnormally: -1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/research$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2007-03-07 03:02 /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin -> > /usr/bin/xdvi.real > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/research$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin > xdvi.bin - status is manual. > link currently points to /usr/bin/xdvi.real > /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin - priority 30 > Current `best' version is /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin. > > I didn't do any manual configuration of that alternative before upgrading, > though. So the postinst probably needs to have some code handling the > upgrade case for that alternative, either in texlive-base-bin or in > tetex-bin. I think we should first remove the alternative sdvi.real, that would solve the problem. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
