Bug#243672: tetex-bin: Package doesn't install (file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf doesn't exist)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Dietrich Brunn <brunn@ira.uka.de> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-11
> Severity: grave
> Tags: sid
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> The command
>   "apt-get install tetex-bin"
> produces the following error:
>
> ....
> Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-11) ...
> Generating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... chmod: failed to get attributes of 
> `/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf': No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> ....
>
> The contents of the directory "/etc/texmf" is
>   dvipdfm  etex   mktex.cnf  pdftex  texmf.d
>   dvips    fmt.d  modes.mf   platex  updmap.d
> The only other tetex related Package I installed manually beforehand, is 
> "tetex-base".

Could you please give me the output of

grep texmf.cnf /var/lib/ucf/hashfile

If this gives you some output, the quick fix for you should be 

ucf --purge /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
dpkg --configure -a

(and I also know a more thorough fix for everybody)

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie