Dear Norbert, I just upgraded the two following packages, on behalf to see if something could improve the situation with texlive. All worked perfectly, the package texlive-base-bin has been configured after that the 2 were processed, and no error has been reported.
http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main texinfo 4.11.dfsg.1-2 [710kB] http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main tex-common 1.10 [710kB] Thank you again for your help! Best Regards. .Yves. Le Tuesday 20 November 2007 14:00:57 Norbert Preining, vous avez écrit : > Dear dpkg maintainers, > > we are having a small problem here. Yves tried to install > texlive-base-bin which broke in postinst. The strange thing is that ALL > programs contained in texlive-base-bin seem to be missing after > installation. > > On Di, 20 Nov 2007, Yves Caniou wrote: > > /tmp/ml.sh: line 3: kpsexpand: command not found > > /tmp/ml.sh: line 10: kpsewhich: command not found > > But i checked that his path is correct: > > On Di, 20 Nov 2007, Yves Caniou wrote: > > /usr/bin/kpsewhich is not present. > > > > PATH is: > > .:..:/root/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/kerber > >os/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin > > When he tries to install the package the following happens: > > Réception de : 1 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main texlive-common > > 2007-13 [78,5kB] > > Réception de : 2 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main texlive-base-bin > > 2007.dfsg.1-2 [2378kB] > > 2456ko réceptionnés en 4s (568ko/s) > > Lecture des champs des paquets... Fait > > Lecture de l'état des paquets... Fait > > Récupération des rapports de bogue... Fait > > Analyse des informations Trouvé/Corrigé... Fait > > Sélection du paquet texlive-common précédemment désélectionné. > > (Lecture de la base de données... 208806 fichiers et répertoires déjà > > installés.) > > Dépaquetage de texlive-common (à partir > > de .../texlive-common_2007-13_all.deb) ... > > Sélection du paquet texlive-base-bin précédemment désélectionné. > > Dépaquetage de texlive-base-bin (à partir > > de .../texlive-base-bin_2007.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb) ... > > Paramétrage de texlive-common (2007-13) ... > > Paramétrage de texlive-base-bin (2007.dfsg.1-2) ... > > 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/fmtutil.NSkL6364 > > Please include this file if you report a bug. > > At this point there is NO /usr/bin/kpsewhich etc etc > So I checked his package: > > On Di, 20 Nov 2007, Yves Caniou wrote: > > > Can you do the following > > > > > > mkdir foobar > > > dpkg-deb -x > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-base-bin_2007.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb foobar > > > ls foobar/usr/bin > > > > > > If you see there kpsewhich and other programs than something is really > > > strange with your system. > > > > Then there is something strange because: > > > > #>ls -l foobar/usr/bin/kpsewhich > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10740 2007-11-19 12:07 foobar/usr/bin/kpsewhich > > Sosomething is really strange. Do you have any idea what could be the > reason for this failure? I haven't seen anying like this till now. > > THanks a lot for your cooperation and all the best > > Norbert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- Dr. Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vienna University of > Technology Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 > A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- KERRY (n.) > The small twist of skin which separated each sausage on a string. > --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff