El jue, 14 oct 2021 a las 13:35, Andrew M.A. Cater (<amaca...@einval.com>) escribió: >> > It might be worth checking what packages you have installed. If you > can manage to, uninstall them (or use dpkg --purge to purge texlive-base > then retry.
Thanks for the idea. It didn't work. texlive-base is not installed, so purge di nothing. I rechecked the packages installed. Some tex-related packages still had configuration files, so i purged them all. Then I started again, installing tex-common, texlive-binaries, and then texlive-base. And here it fails again as above. > > Also, as ever, my advice would be to use stable unless there is a > really compelling reason: unstable can change radically and > breakages happen. Yes, I tend to be careful before upgrades and have managed to have no major issues for years. This is my home PC anyway, so I have more freedom for failure. But, well, latex is fairly critical for me :-) Victor
