On Tue, 14 Nov 1995 13:09:43 +0100 (MET), "Nils Rennebarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Thomas Kocourek wrote: > > > Alright guys, who's responsible for the following mess.... 8-) > > > > I tried a 90% install of Debian 0.93 R6, All went well until I got to > > the TEX section. Most of it refused to install. Seems that those packages > > depended upon a package called "metafont". Only problem is that "metafont" > > was moved into the "mfbin" package and a bunch of packages weren't told > > this little, but vital, piece of info. Hummm.... perhaps a stable release > > isn't such a bad idea. > But the mfbin package 'Provides' metafont. Did you have an older already > installed mfbin package on your system? In this case it is a well known > (but not yet corrected) bug and could be worked around by removing all > tex packages and reeinstall them.
The packages are the ones from the main Debian site under the 0.93 tree. I'll try fetching it again. Maybe I have a mix and didn't know it. BTW, I installed Debian from scratch. (i.e. freshly formatted drives) -- ************************************** * Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK * * UUCP: dragon!westgac3!tomk * * INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * **************************************
