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08-09-2004, 04:28 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Morio Cho
Distribution: debian sid
Posts: 124
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upgrading tetex-bin
Hello.
I have a problem when, during an apt-get upgrade, tetex-bin is supposed to be configured. The error occurs as initex is run, and this prevents further installation (tetex-extra).
The error is as follows:
Code:
Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-17) ...
Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done
Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/<whatever>
and there's nothing in /tmp/<whatever> 
(the file exist, but it's empty)
What's wrong with this?
Thanks a lot.
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08-10-2004, 06:51 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Morio Cho
Distribution: debian sid
Posts: 124
Original Poster
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any hint?

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08-10-2004, 07:39 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: Debian AMD64
Posts: 4,170
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Re: upgrading tetex-bin
Quote:
Originally posted by guldo
Hello.
I have a problem when, during an apt-get upgrade, tetex-bin is supposed to be configured. The error occurs as initex is run, and this prevents further installation (tetex-extra).
The error is as follows:
Code:
Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-17) ...
Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done
Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/<whatever>
and there's nothing in /tmp/<whatever> 
(the file exist, but it's empty)
What's wrong with this?
Thanks a lot.
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It is a bug it looks like you did not accept the update to the configuration file. You may want to try apt-get install --reinstall tetex-bin and answer yes to the new config file.
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08-11-2004, 07:22 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Morio Cho
Distribution: debian sid
Posts: 124
Original Poster
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Re: Re: upgrading tetex-bin
Quote:
Originally posted by HappyTux
It is a bug it looks like you did not accept the update to the configuration file. You may want to try apt-get install --reinstall tetex-bin and answer yes to the new config file.
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Thanks for the info, but it does not work; it does not ask me anything about the new config file, reproducing the same error. Should I purge tetex-bin and perform a brand new install? What else?
Thank you
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08-11-2004, 02:00 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: Debian AMD64
Posts: 4,170
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Re: Re: Re: upgrading tetex-bin
Quote:
Originally posted by guldo
Thanks for the info, but it does not work; it does not ask me anything about the new config file, reproducing the same error. Should I purge tetex-bin and perform a brand new install? What else?
Thank you
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It is definitely worth a try and you may want to change to the apt cache ( cd /var/cache/apt/archives ) and install the old package with dpkg ( dpkg -i tetex-bin_old_version_number ) if it is still there to downgrade to a known working package.
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08-11-2004, 04:01 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Morio Cho
Distribution: debian sid
Posts: 124
Original Poster
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That's annoying... I found tetex-bin version 2.0.2-15 on the debian site, but it does not work.
I tried to remove tetex-bin, but this results in removing some other stuff...
Do you think this kind of bug would be solved soon?
Thanks.
Last edited by guldo; 08-12-2004 at 12:51 PM.
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09-06-2004, 04:34 AM
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#7
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 1
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I just had the same problem and resolved it with
dpkg --purge --force-depends tetex-bin
which removes tetex-bin regardless of dependencies, and
dpkg -i tetex-extra_2.0.2b-3_all.deb
to install the new one (and to satisfy the dependencies again).
Torsten 
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09-06-2004, 01:00 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Morio Cho
Distribution: debian sid
Posts: 124
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Thanks for your answer, tsadowski, but I fixed it with the new release of the debian package, that is 2.0.2-19.

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