Package: texlive-binaries Version: 2009-8 Severity: important I do not seem to be able to install TeX on account of texlive-binaries' fmtutil-sys post-installation script failing. I remember I did at one point have latex set up on this system, but it has been since removed. I have checked for any lingering unpurged configuration files and as far as I can tell there is nothing installed relating to TeX (according to dpkg and searches through /etc, /usr, /var). I've catted a log of APT:
[meimei:~]% sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libkpathsea5 luatex tex-common texlive-base texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base Suggested packages: debhelper perl-tk ghostscript xpdf-reader pdf-viewer gv postscript-viewer Recommended packages: texlive-luatex lmodern texlive-latex-base-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: libkpathsea5 luatex tex-common texlive-base texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-latex-base 0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 404 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/28.3 MB of archives. After this operation, 68.0 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package libkpathsea5. (Reading database ... 54253 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libkpathsea5 (from .../libkpathsea5_2009-8_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package luatex. Unpacking luatex (from .../luatex_0.70.1-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package tex-common. Unpacking tex-common (from .../tex-common_2.09_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-common. Unpacking texlive-common (from .../texlive-common_2009-11_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-doc-base. Unpacking texlive-doc-base (from .../texlive-doc-base_2009-2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-binaries. Unpacking texlive-binaries (from .../texlive-binaries_2009-8_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-base. Unpacking texlive-base (from .../texlive-base_2009-11_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-latex-base. Unpacking texlive-latex-base (from .../texlive-latex-base_2009-11_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for install-info ... Setting up libkpathsea5 (2009-8) ... Setting up luatex (0.70.1-1) ... texlive-base is not ready, cannot create formats Setting up tex-common (2.09) ... Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with new version Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. texlive-base is not ready, delaying updmap-sys call texlive-base is not ready, skipping fmtutil-sys --all call Setting up texlive-common (2009-11) ... Setting up texlive-doc-base (2009-2) ... Setting up texlive-binaries (2009-8) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw to provide /usr/bin/xdvi.bin (xdvi.bin) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/bibtex.original to provide /usr/bin/bibtex (bibtex) in auto mode. 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. Building format(s) --refresh. This may take some time... fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/fmtutil.ejsfxS1f Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing texlive-binaries (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-base: texlive-base depends on texlive-binaries (>= 2009-1); however: Package texlive-binaries is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured configured to not write apport reports 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. texlive-latex-base depends on texlive-binaries (>= 2009-1); however: Package texlive-binaries is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-base (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured configured to not write apport reports Processing triggers for tex-common ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Errors were encountered while processing: texlive-binaries texlive-base texlive-latex-base E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [meimei:~]% sudo cat /tmp/fmtutil.ejsfxS1f warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /var/lib/texmf/ls-R. warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /usr/share/texmf/ls-R. warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R. warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /var/lib/texmf/ls-R. warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /usr/share/texmf/ls-R. warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R. warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /var/lib/texmf/ls-R. warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /usr/share/texmf/ls-R. warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R. warning: kpathsea: See the manual for how to generate ls-R. tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found. fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on: ii ed 1.4-3 The classic UNIX line editor ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libkpathsea5 2009-8 TeX Live: path search library for ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-2 PNG library - runtime ii libpoppler5 0.12.4-1.2 PDF rendering library ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii perl 5.12.3-7+b1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii tex-common 2.09 common infrastructure for building ii texlive-common 2009-11 TeX Live: Base component ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime texlive-binaries recommends no packages. texlive-binaries suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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