Gary K Olson on October 14, 2009 1:04:06 PM MDT wrote:

> Martin Costabel on October 14, 2009 1:04:06 AM MDT wrote:
>
> Gary K Olson wrote:
>> Using texlive-base, I was trying to build texmacs, and I got the   
>> following error:
>
> More precisely, you could not install texlive-base because of the  
> following error.
>
>> updmap: Scanning for MixedMap entries:
>> !!! ERROR! The map file `bsr-interpolated.map' has not been found  
>> at  all.
>> Failed: can't install package texlive-base-0.20080816-1
>
> This has come up a couple of days ago on this list in the thread  
> "failed compiling texlive-base (error on udmap)". There the failure  
> was due to a file /sw/etc/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg that must  
> have remained from a previous installation. If you have this file,  
> too, then
>
> 1. Try to find out if it belongs to some installed package:
>
>  dpkg -S texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
>

Did not work.

> 2. Then either remove that package or, if there is none that admits  
> owning this file, remove that web2c folder by hand:
>
>  sudo rm -rf /sw/etc/texmf-config/web2c/
>

I removed this file, and texlive-base installed correctly.

Most of the packages that were removed have reinstalled correctly. I  
noticed that  docbook-utils is still set up with tetex-base.  I  
suppose this package will be changed to depend upon texlive-base in  
due course.

Thank you again for your help.

Gary K Olson


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