Public bug reported: I am running TeX Live 2012 on Ubuntu Precise. For the installation I followed this tutorial (http://weblog.avp-ptr.de/20120710/how-to- manually-install-tex-live-2012/). Yesterday, I updated the packages (about 40 items) for Tex Live 2012 using the following tool.
$ sudo tlmgr --gui The updates have been installed successfully and everything still worked. Today, I noticed that apt-get outputs errors when I run sudo apt-get install something or sudo apt-get autoremove. Here is the console output of the latter command. $ sudo apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up texlive-base (2009-15) ... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. texconfig: unknown option `paperconf' given as argument for `texconfig dvips' texconfig: try `texconfig dvips' for help texconfig: unknown option `paperconf' given as argument for `texconfig dvipdfmx' texconfig: try `texconfig dvipdfmx' for help texconfig: unknown option `paperconf' given as argument for `texconfig xdvi' texconfig: try `texconfig xdvi' for help texconfig: unknown option `paperconf' given as argument for `texconfig pdftex' texconfig: try `texconfig pdftex' for help texconfig: unknown option `paperconf' given as argument for `texconfig dvips' texconfig: try `texconfig dvips' for help dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-base: texlive-latex-base depends on texlive-base (>= 2009-1); however: Package texlive-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-base (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-bibtex-extra: texlive-bibtex-extra depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2009-1); however: Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing texlive-bibtex-extra (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Errors were encountered while processing: texlive-base texlive-latex-base texlive-bibtex-extra LaTeX itself still works fine as far as I can see. Note: Just in case the following has something to do with the main problem. I also noticed a while ago that the man path does no longer point to the usual folders. The MANPATH problem (http://askubuntu.com/questions/60765/how-do-i-add-a-directory-to- manpath-or-infopath) has been described before. However, I could not solve it on my machine. $ echo $MANPATH /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/doc/man ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: texlive-base 2009-15 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-30.48-generic 3.2.27 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Sep 11 10:29:27 2012 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: texlive-base Title: package texlive-base 2009-15 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: texlive-base (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-package need-duplicate-check precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048994 Title: apt-get error caused by Tex Live 2012 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-base/+bug/1048994/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
