Hi all,
Something somehow got frigged up on our system and I can no longer install packages via apt. No matter what I try to install apt says it needs the follwoing two packages:
tetex-base tetex-bin
It then reports that something is wrong with tetex-bin and the install aborts.
Here is the whole transaction of installing Firefox:
Code:
gcnpd:/var# apt-get install firefox
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package firefox
gcnpd:/var# apt-get install mozilla-firefox
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-dev libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtk2.0-dev libpango1.0-0
libpango1.0-common libpango1.0-dev libtiff4 libxcursor1 tetex-base tetex-bin
Suggested packages:
libglib2.0-doc libgtk2.0-doc ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-thryomanes ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp libpango1.0-doc latex-xft-fonts
gs-aladdin
Recommended packages:
libatk1.0-data x-ttcidfont-conf texi2html
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgtk2.0-bin libtiff4 mozilla-firefox tetex-base
The following packages will be upgraded:
libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-dev libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libgtk2.0-dev libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
libpango1.0-dev libxcursor1 tetex-bin
12 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 607 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/37.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 88.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
tetex-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
gcnpd:/var#
I've tried revoing it via apt and manually. Still nothing.
Any thoughts?
Chris
