Package: tetex-extra Version: 1.0.2+20021025-7 Severity: grave Hello,
I cannot install tetex-extra because its preinst shows weird md5sum problems (see below). I have been told that may be caused by obsolete coreutils, however this is a up-to-date Sid system (installed with Slink or so and dist-upgraded from then). Tetex-extra may have been installed and then deinstalled in the past, I don't remember. $ apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: tetex-extra The following NEW packages will be installed: tetex-extra 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 97 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/10.8MB of archives. After unpacking 43.2MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed (Reading database ... 205050 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tetex-extra (from .../tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb) ... /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams: md5sum not known. Exiting dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ls -la /etc/texmf/dvips/config.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams.dpkg-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz.dpkg-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm.dpkg-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz.dpkg-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166 May 23 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.mirrorprint md5sum /etc/texmf/dvips/config.* df69e80e8157afde30550f21317bbd6d /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams 32c36b063268c5e45819fe8114ce3cf0 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams.dpkg-old 0ef9213edceaaba3185a79e5946c8411 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz b9c14f2d2e3923372e9067e2e1ee47b5 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz.dpkg-old 363c5ef43576af28b14330ae78ed5de8 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm 68d23ead2901dddbc1779c905806b783 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm.dpkg-old 949213a1865415e6f5199188ee57419e /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz 830f16e1e39c67b1c665a8b09824a7b4 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz.dpkg-old d8fe8cd35cf178202ee13f64c66dd2d9 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.mirrorprint -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on: ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre ii perl-tk 1:800.025-2 Perl module providing the Tk graph ii tetex-base 3.0-11 Basic library files of teTeX pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available) tetex-extra recommends no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]