On 25 Apr 1998, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Luka Pravica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >From the installation error-file (from dpkg) obviosly some files are > > missing, like texmf.cnf, language.dat... > > I tried searching for those files but they are not on my hard drive. > > Perhaps all those files get installed with some other package, but dselect > > didn't show any dependencies. > > > You can do a 'dpkg -S language.dat' etc. On my system ( hamm with tetex 0.9), > both files are in tetex-base. 'dpkg -S ...' tells you where the files should > be in the filesystem, so you could look, if the files are really there. > You should even try the command 'texconfig conf' and 'texconfig confall', > which show the configuration of your tetex-system.
Yes, the files belong to tetex-base. But somehow the installation script for either tetex-base or tetex-bin (I don't know yet) removes all files in /etc/texmf/ under some circumstances. This was initially intended to clean up incompatible files from old Latex versions, but it also seems to be happening on new installations of Tetex. If I figure out what's really wrong here, I'll file a bug report. Or can somebody else, with more knowledge of perl than I have, look into this? I know the files aren't removed when upgrading between different versions of the tetex-* packages. On how to get the files back: I think the only way is to manually extract them from the package and then fiddle around until you got it right. I got it right several times already, but I can't remember the exact steps. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]