Hi,
I was having some problems with my latex installation on an AMD64 mahine running Ubuntu 8.04, so I tried uninstalling and reinstalling tetex (which seems to require texlive) using:
sudo apt-get install tetex-bin
but I get dependency errors (listed below).
I tried sudo spt-get install -f and sudo dpkg --configure -a
but the get the same errors.

I would appreciate some help in fixing this problem.
Recif


Setting up texlive-base-bin (2007.dfsg.1-2) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all.
This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.ulG19600
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing texlive-base-bin (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-base:
texlive-base depends on texlive-base-bin (>= 2007-13); however:
Package texlive-base-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-fonts-recommended:
texlive-fonts-recommended depends on texlive-base (>= 2007-11); however:
Package texlive-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-fonts-recommended (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-base:
texlive-latex-base depends on texlive-base (>= 2007-11); however:
Package texlive-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-base (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

tetex does not require texlive. Remove it completely.

Then try to reconfigure (dpkg) texlive.

Do you have test repositories enabled?
Disable them.

If that does not work uninstall all of texlive and install again.

You can get texlive2008 too (almost ok)

Best

A. Mani

Hi,
It seems that the problem was with the installation of the kpathsea library. I reinstalled it and then texlive, and that fixed the problem. Thanks for your assistance.
Recif