I have the same problem, I can't install texlive-base. I can install texlive-base-bin alone though. But not texlive-base. I attach error log and output:
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
texlive-base is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up texlive-base (2005.dfsg.3-1) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all . This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/texlive.fmtutil.nWw29962
Please include this file if you report a bug.
dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
texlive-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I have the same problem, I can't install texlive-base. I can install texlive-base-bin alone though. But not texlive-base. I attach error log and output:
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-base fmtutil. nWw29962
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
texlive-base is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up texlive-base (2005.dfsg.3-1) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all . This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/texlive.
Please include this file if you report a bug.
dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
texlive-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)