Hi Ross! On Mon, 04 Sep 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: > I was finally able to clean up my system by using dpkg with
Good to hear. > I then purged every package with texlive in the name (are there any > others I should zap?). I have not yet tried reinstalling; the mailing No, all the packages have texlive at the beginning of the name. > particular, see bug #385784 for a diagnosis and 2 possible solutions > to the apparent aptitude error (which was actually in the apt > libraries). Uff, that was a long read. > > 2. It is strange that there is only one ls-R file. Please send us the > > output of > > Well, things were in a pretty bad state. As noted in the previous > response to this post, mktexlsr wasn't on the system any more. I assume so. Some of the ls-R files are generated with the mktexlsr run, so as this didn't succeed, there are none. > > 5. As far as I understood, dvipdfmx calls mktexlsr unconditionally, this > > should probably be a separate bug. > > That would certainly add safety. However, this only became an issue > because other dependencies were messed up, so adding tests might be > overkill. Still, there is dh_installtex which automatically creates proper snippets. > P.S. I will report here after doing a reinstall. Thanks a lot!!! Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining AT logic DOT at> Università di Siena gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BALLYCUMBER One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]