Bug#384945: texlive system will not install [solved?]

2006-09-05 Thread Frank Küster
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tested installing and removing texlive and some associated packages, not including texlive-full. The basics went without incident. However, auctex suggests catdvi, and the latter depends on tetex-base without texlive as an alternate. The problem

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install

2006-09-04 Thread Frank Küster
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: texlive Version: 2005.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal Hi all, after reading through the bug log and what you've found out so far, it seems to me that there are a couple of issues: The various tex's have a checkered history on this system. I think I

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install

2006-09-04 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! On Mon, 04 Sep 2006, Frank Küster wrote: In the recent upgrade to KDE 3.5.4 kdegraphics seemed to require texlive packages, but these failed with an error that a file was owned by two packages, and that I should remove texlive. I attempted to do so. 1. Why does or did

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install [solved?]

2006-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
I was finally able to clean up my system by using dpkg with --force-remove-reinstreq to purge preview-latex-style. This did not immediately work, because the package's postrm script attempts to invoke mktexlsr (I think--this is from memory), which wasn't there. I commented out the line, and was

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install [solved?]

2006-09-04 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Ross! On Mon, 04 Sep 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: I was finally able to clean up my system by using dpkg with Good to hear. I then purged every package with texlive in the name (are there any others I should zap?). I have not yet tried reinstalling; the mailing No, all the packages have

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install [solved?]

2006-09-04 Thread Frank Küster
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I've already purged the packages, I can't answer some of the questions below. I have some comments below with more information; in particular, see bug #385784 for a diagnosis and 2 possible solutions to the apparent aptitude error (which was

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install [solved?]

2006-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
I tested installing and removing texlive and some associated packages, not including texlive-full. The basics went without incident. However, auctex suggests catdvi, and the latter depends on tetex-base without texlive as an alternate. The problem that caused me to file this report is solved

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install

2006-08-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:13:10PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Hi Ross, On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:25:53 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Yes, but as I showed in the subsequent message, I'm also unable to purge the packages. Seems I can neither go forward or back. On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:58:51

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install

2006-08-29 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi Ross, On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:25:53 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Yes, but as I showed in the subsequent message, I'm also unable to purge the packages. Seems I can neither go forward or back. On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:58:51 -0700, Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Removing dvipdfmx ...

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install

2006-08-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: texlive Version: 2005.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal Warrants higher severity if I have not put my system into some idiosyncratic, oddball state. I think there's some kind of circular dependency among the the texlive packages; I'm too sleepy to get to the bottom of it. The various tex's

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install

2006-08-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Ross! Did you see this: On Son, 27 Aug 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: corn:~# date; aptitude -q install texlive-base ... Unpacking texlive-doc-base (from .../texlive-doc-base_2005-2_all.deb) ... Upgrade from experimental versions are not supported! Please purge all texlive packages before

Bug#384945: texlive system will not install

2006-08-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:43:02PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: Dear Ross! Did you see this: On Son, 27 Aug 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: corn:~# date; aptitude -q install texlive-base ... Unpacking texlive-doc-base (from .../texlive-doc-base_2005-2_all.deb) ... Upgrade from