Comment 1 for bug 82412

On Mit, 31 Jan 2007, bkudria wrote:
> Setting up texlive-base-bin (2005.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3) ...

Sorry, this version is ancient, the respective Debian version is from
Wed, 09 Aug 2006, we are currently at 2005.dfsg.3-1
Too much has changed in the meantime, I cannot know what is the bug.

> Building format(s) --all . This may take some time...
> fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
> /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.qTnu3660
> 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
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> texlive-base-bin
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> # sudo cat /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.qTnu3660
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
>
> # ls /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.3k 2007-01-30 23:25 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

It seems that tex-common is too old, or what ever.

Please do a
 kpsewhich texmf.cnf
it should give
 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
and then do
 ls -l /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
which should point to
 /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
If this is the case, please call
 update-texmf
as root.

Best wishes

Norbert

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