Package: texlive-metapost Version: 2005.dfsg.2-12 Severity: normal
I ran "pdflatex first; mpost myfigs; pdflatex first", and the second pdflatex invocation died with a "! Undefined control sequence \convertMPtoPDF" error. The problem is due to the fact that /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/pdftex.def (in texlive-latex-base) contains the statement " \InputIfFileExists{supp-pdf}{}{}%", which (I guess) looks for supp-pdf.tex and silently ignores it (and its dependency supp-mis.tex) if it does not exist in the path. texlive-metapost does not ship the above files. However, gzipped copies of the missing files are present in /usr/share/doc/texlive-base-bin/pdftex/manual/samplepdf (doc tree of texlive-base-bin), and copying them in ~/texmf/tex solves the problem. What about moving the files to their proper place? By the way, texlive-context has both files, although I believe texlive-metapost should not depend on (nor recommend) texlive-context. best regards -- giuseppe ################################## minimal input file % first.tex, taken from the mfpguide. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[metapost]{mfpic} \opengraphsfile{myfigs} \begin{document} My first figure: \begin{mfpic}[72]{-1}{1}{-1}{1} \ellipse{(0,0),1,.5} \end{mfpic} \closegraphsfile \end{document} ################################## other files ###################################### List of ls-R files -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 796 Feb 10 11:00 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R -rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 79 Feb 10 10:45 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 10 10:42 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 10 10:42 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 10 10:42 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE ###################################### Config files lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 10 10:42 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4606 Feb 10 11:00 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4787 Feb 10 10:56 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4613 Feb 10 10:56 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages texlive-metapost depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii texlive-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Essential programs and f ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Base component Versions of packages texlive-metapost recommends: pn feynmf <none> (no description available) Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy ii ucf 2.0020 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages texlive-metapost is related to: pn tetex-base <none> (no description available) pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available) pn tetex-extra <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: tex-common/check_texmf_wrong: tex-common/check_texmf_missing: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]