On Thu 14 Oct 2021 at 13:19:09 (-0300), Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > El jue, 14 oct 2021 a las 12:46, The Wanderer (<wande...@fastmail.fm>) > escribió: > > On 2021-10-14 at 10:57, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > > > > > I'm having problems installing texlive in my PC. I'm using unstable > > > here. > > > > That may be the root problem, or at least, the best place to solve it. > > The basic rule of running unstable is "if it breaks, you get to keep all > > the pieces". IMO, no one should ever run unstable on a computer they > > *need* to be functional. > > Yes, I know the risks :-) My office computer is in stable for that > reason. This is my home computer. Anyway, > I'm extremely conservative with upgrades, and do not upgrade if I > think I'm going to break something important, This may > be the first major issue I've had for years in this particular machine. > > > > Preparing to unpack .../texlive-base_2021.20210921-1_all.deb ... > > > dpkg: error processing archive > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-base_2021.20210921-1_all.deb > > > (--unpack): > > > conffile name 'remove-on-upgrade /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config/config' is > > > not an absolute pathname > > > > I'm not an expert on this part of the system, but to my eye, this looks > > as if there's an syntactically-invalid entry in the list of conffiles > > for that package. > > > > If I'm not mistaken, that list is defined in > > '/var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.conffiles'. On my system (running > > testing, with version 2020.20210202-3), that file contains two lines, > > neither of which starts with 'remove-on-upgrade' nor matches that path. > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. The file does not exist in my system. I > checked the contents of the deb file, and nothing. I only found > a mention to dvipdfm in etc/libpaper.d/texlive-base > > Tried to find if it may be installed by some other package, but > searching contents of packages in the debian web site, I found no > match.
The reply confirms that testing has an older version. Here's the conffiles for the version you are trying to install. (Obviously you don't have the file in your /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.list because you haven't yet succeeded in installing it.) DEBIAN/conffiles 329/329 100% remove-on-upgrade /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config/config remove-on-upgrade /etc/texmf/xdvi/xdvi.cfg remove-on-upgrade /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base.cnf remove-on-upgrade /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base.cnf remove-on-upgrade /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-math-extra.cnf /etc/libpaper.d/texlive-base /etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults So, as I guessed, your dpkg is effectively obsolescent for installing some packages in unstable. Cheers, David.
