Package: xmltex Version: 1.9-11 Severity: normal
I got a message from apt-getthat I should file a bug report, so this is the bug report. The circumstances are that my TeX installation has been broken for at least a month now. I kept hoping some new package would get installed, and things would start working. Last night, I did a little more googling. About the best path to fix things, seemed to be to purge tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-extra and tex-common from the system and re-install. Running 'dpkg --purge tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra tex-common' didn't actually result in purging anything, due to dependencies. Adding a '--force-depends' did remove the packages and configuration files. Reinstalling those 4 packages after the purge, still left things broken. More reading. Jadetex seems to be a sticking point for a bunch of problems from what I can see in bug reports, and the fmtutil kept dying on problems with xmltex. So, I tried purging (with --force-depends) the now 6 packages: tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, tex-common, xmltex, jadetex. When this ran, there were problems with removing some of the xmltex configuration, due to kpathsea (I believe) being already removed when it came time to remove xmltex. Reinstalling these 6 packages at least got most of my TeX system working, however, xmltex was still broken. I then purged (with --force-depends) just xmltex, and then reinstalled. This seems to have things working, except for this note about submitting a bug report about fmtutil being run as root. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages xmltex depends on: ii tetex-base 3.0-11 Basic library files of teTeX ii tetex-bin 3.0-13 The teTeX binary files ii tetex-extra 3.0-11 Additional library files of teTeX Versions of packages xmltex recommends: ii passivetex 1.25-2 Macros to process XSL formatting o -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
