Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Daniel! > > On Don, 09 Nov 2006, daniel bosold wrote: >> installing lmodern fails with a twice repeated message of directory >> '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1' does not exist. the package attempts once more to >> install but fails. > > Hmm, this is a message of update-fonts-dir, not lmodern. > >> I have removed and attempted to reinstall to no effect. I have the latest X >> packages (unstable) and have read the message at >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2006/10/msg00972.html but changing >> 'set -e' to 'set -ex' at /var/lib/dpkg/info/lmodern.postinst had no effect. > > No, what is interesting from adding the x is the output. Could you > provide this, ie the output of > dpkg-reconfigure -plow lmodern
I'm not sure, but I fear if the package is not configured yet, dpkg-reconfigure will refuse to work. So it should be dpkg --configure -a 2>&1 | tee configure.log and the output is in the file configure.log Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
