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H.S.

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Jul 4, 2007, 12:50:11 PM7/4/07
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In Debian testing, I am getting this error after an upgrade:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Setting up texlive-common (2005.dfsg.3-1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-common.postinst: line 118:
/usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
texlive-latex-recommended:
texlive-latex-recommended depends on texlive-common (>=
2005.dfsg.2-1); however:
Package texlive-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-recommended (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-xcolor:
latex-xcolor depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-xcolor (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pgf:
pgf depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
pgf depends on latex-xcolor (>= 2.00-1); however:
Package latex-xcolor is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing pgf (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up prosper (1.00.4+cvs.2007.05.01-1) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Errors were encountered while processing:
texlive-common
texlive-latex-recommended
latex-xcolor
pgf
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up texlive-common (2005.dfsg.3-1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-common.postinst: line 118:
/usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
texlive-latex-recommended:
texlive-latex-recommended depends on texlive-common (>=
2005.dfsg.2-1); however:
Package texlive-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-recommended (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-xcolor:
latex-xcolor depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-xcolor (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pgf:
pgf depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
pgf depends on latex-xcolor (>= 2.00-1); however:
Package latex-xcolor is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing pgf (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
texlive-common
texlive-latex-recommended
latex-xcolor
pgf
---------------------------------------------------------------------


What should I do next? It is probably not okay to leave the things in
this state, is it?

thanks,
->HS

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Florian Kulzer

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Jul 4, 2007, 2:20:10 PM7/4/07
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:40:09 -0400, H.S. wrote:
>
> In Debian testing, I am getting this error after an upgrade:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Setting up texlive-common (2005.dfsg.3-1) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-common.postinst: line 118:
> /usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[ snip: more errors for packages that depend on texlive-common ]

> What should I do next? It is probably not okay to leave the things in this
> state, is it?

Seems to be this issue:

#429753 [FIXED 2007-10]: texlive-commong post-install action fails, blocking tex/latex install
#425270 [FIXED texlive-base 2007-7]: texlive-common: still calling tetex-bin-upgrade

One of the follow-ups of #429753 suggests that it is enough to comment
out line 118 in the post-installation script. (tetex-bin-upgrade is
obsolete for Lenny; it only exists in the Etch version the tex-common
package.) If that is the case then it should also be possible to provide
a symlink to /bin/true as a "fake" tetex-bin-upgrade command:

ln -s /bin/true /usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade
dpkg --configure texlive-common
rm -i /usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade
aptitude install -f

(You can of course also use apt-get for the last step if you prefer.)

If you want to play it safe then you can simply wait for texlive-common
2007-10 to come to Lenny. This might still take a while, though:

http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=texlive-base

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H.S.

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Jul 4, 2007, 4:10:08 PM7/4/07
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Thanks. I will do as you suggest below, unless I have to use latex and
see that I need to fix the package (in which case, I will try one of the
above two methods).


> If you want to play it safe then you can simply wait for texlive-common
> 2007-10 to come to Lenny. This might still take a while, though:
>
> http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=texlive-base
>

regards,
->HS

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