Do you have tetex installed by other means than fink?  That's what
system-tetex is for.

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Aki Hoji wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I was updating kpat and run into this problem of installing the latest
> version of system-tetex.  I got the following message:
>
> dpkg -i
> /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/system-
> tetex_20010808-10_darwin-powerpc.deb
> (Reading database ... 24509 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking system-tetex (from
> .../system-tetex_20010808-10_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
>
> You don't a valid teTeX installation; you were missing
>   /usr/local/teTeX/lib/libkpathsea.a
> /usr/local/teTeX/include/kpathsea/tex-file.h
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
>
> Install the tetex-texmf and tetex-base packages instead,
> or install teTeX manually from
> http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html
> and then retry installing the system-tetex package.
>
> If you are trying to install tetex using dselect or apt-get,
> you must install tetex-texmf using the command
>       fink install tetex-texmf .
> There is no binary available for this package, for licensing
> reasons.
>
> dpkg: error processing
> /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/system-
> tetex_20010808-10_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
>   subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>
> /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/system-
> tetex_20010808-10_darwin-powerpc.deb
> ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
> Failed: can't install package system-tetex-20010808-10
>
> Could anybody suggest the workaround ?  Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Aki Hoji
> Dept. Infectious Diseases & Microbiology
> University of Pittsburgh
> Rm526 Parran Hall, GSPH-IDM,
> 130 Desoto Street,
> Pittsburgh, PA 15261
>
>
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