Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marcelo Magallon writes:
On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX
before installing teTeX, but this is not user friendly, nice,
cool, etc.
You have no
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Dalley writes:
Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better
than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient
considering the number of users installing tetex.
An notice and pointer to instructions in the package
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted
instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the
preinst script it is to late.
Isn't this something that whoever it is maintaining dselect should fix?
I don't think this
Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better
than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient
considering the number of users installing tetex.
Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marcelo Magallon writes:
On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin
On 1 Mar 1997, Kevin Dalley wrote:
Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better
than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient
considering the number of users installing tetex.
Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marcelo Magallon
There is a serious problem/bug in dpkg that prevents the correct
removal of the old tex packages and then the installation of tetex.
dpkg can't handle multiple packages which are to be replaced.
So, do the following:
- Purge all the old tex packages which are replaced by tetex. (E.g. go
into
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Marcelo Magallon wrote:
The wierd thing is that dpkg --remove latex works...
That didn't work for me. I had to remove my previous Debian TeX
installation by *hand* (that is, using rm and not dpkg) because dpkg
just gave me script aborted with an error when trying to use it.
On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX
before installing teTeX, but this is not user friendly, nice, cool,
etc.
You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one) the
replaces.
Then, to the maintainer,
Marcelo Magallon writes:
On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX
before installing teTeX, but this is not user friendly, nice, cool,
etc.
You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one)
Marcelo Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless we
want to see the question How do I upgrade TeX? n+1 times on
debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of In dselect [R]emove
packages *first*, *then* [I]nstall them
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