It has become a serious problem! After the message here attached I completely uninstalled all the tetex packages & the tex connected ones (lyx, texmacs, etc.) by means of "apt-get remove --purge pasckage"; then - to be on the safe side - I removed by hand the /etc/texmf & /usr/share/texmf directories with their subdirs.
Reinstalling all over again tetex-2.0.2 from the official debian testing archive via apt-get install tetex-bin again caiuses a problem: when setting the package up debian testing complains about a missing configuration file under /etc/texmf (as I said this dir was removed by hand by me!) What's going on? Please help Vittorio To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tetex-bin 2.0.2-14 problems From: Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 22:15:54 +0100 Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Old-return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-agent: KMail/1.6.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under debian testing I'm updating & upgrading the system by means of apt-get. <snip> Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-14) ... Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done Running initex. This may take some time. ... Error: `etex -ini ?-jobname=etex -progname=etex *etex.ini' failed Error: `pdfetex -ini ?-jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex *pdfetex.ini' failed fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/lambda.oft installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/omega.oft installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/amstex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/jadetex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfjadetex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/cont-en.efmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/elatex.efmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mptopdf.efmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfelatex.efmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mf.base installed. ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory ? /usr/share/texmf/web2c for details. ############################################################################### ................... What shall I do? Vittorio