David> Do I have to completely remove TeX and then reinstall it? Just downgrade to mfbasfnt-1.0-3 from the "stable" aka buzz-fixed release. It contains a manfnt.mf so that TeX builds. "dpkg --configure babel" should then set babel straight.
-- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd