Package: tex-common Version: 6.18 Severity: normal Output of apt:
Setting up tex-common (6.18) ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done. Building format(s) --all. This may take some time... fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/fmtutil.Jzo9pPaf Please include this file if you report a bug. /tmp/fmtutil.Jzo9pPaf contains the following: ----------- fmtutil [ERROR]: no (or empty) hitex.fmt made by: hitex -ini -jobname=hitex -progname=hitex -etex -ltx hitex.ini </dev/null ----------- If I run that on the command line I get: ----------- # hitex -ini -jobname=hitex -progname=hitex -etex -ltx hitex.ini </dev/null This is HiTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-2.0 (TeX Live 2023) (INITEX) entering extended mode (hitex.ini (etex.src (plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts, macros, math definitions, output routines, hyphenation (hyphen.tex [skipping from \patterns to end-of-file...])) (etexdefs.lib Skipping module "grouptypes"; Loading module "interactionmodes"; Skipping module "nodetypes"; Skipping module "iftypes";) (language.def (hyphen.tex) (ibyhyph.tex Greek hyphenation patterns for Ibycus encoding, v3.0) (loadhyph-en-gb.tex ASCII Hyphenation patterns for British English (hyph-en-gb.tex)) (loadhyph-el-monoton.tex Hyphenation patterns for uni-accent (monotonic) Modern Greek (grmhyph5.tex Hyphenation patterns for uni-accent (monotonic) Modern Greek)) (loadhyph-en-us.tex ASCII Hyphenation patterns for American English (hyph-en-us.tex)) (loadhyph-grc.tex Hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek (grahyph5.tex Hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek)) (loadhyph-el-polyton.tex Hyphenation patterns for multi-accent (polytonic) Modern Greek (grphyph5.tex Hyphenation patterns for multi-accent (polytonic) Modern Greek))) Augmenting the Plain TeX definitions: \tracingall; Adding new e-TeX definitions: \eTeX, \loggingall, \tracingnone, register allocation; extended register allocation; Recycling: \addlanguage, \@nswer (not defined), \@sk, \b@dresponsetrue, \b@dresponsefalse, \ch@ckforyn, \mayber@cycle, \et@xabort, \et@xbuf, \et@xfmtsrc, \et@xfilehdr, \et@xinf, \et@xpatterns, \l@ngdefnfile, \n@xt, \p@rse (not defined), \pr@mpt (not defined), \pr@mptloop (not defined), \forcer@cycle, \usef@llback, \usef@llbacktrue, \usef@llbackfalse, Retaining: \et@xerr, \et@xinput, \et@xlibhdr, \et@xmsg, \et@xtoks, \et@xwarn, \et@xl@@d, \et@xl@ad, \et@xload, \et@xlang, \et@xhash, \eTeX, \etexhdrchk, \etexstatus, \module, \uselanguage, \r@tain, \r@cycle,) (ifhint.tex) (hiplainpage.tex ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> p <to be read again> p refer <to be read again> e l.48 prefere d 0 ? ! Emergency stop. <to be read again> p <to be read again> p refer <to be read again> e l.48 prefere d 0 Transcript written on hitex.log. ---------- Looking at /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/hitex/base/hiplainpage.tex & diffing it with the version at CTAN, it seems that the latter spells the word in question as “preferred”. If I edit prefered -> preferred in the Debian file, the install completes successfully. cheers, Phil dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure): installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') merged-usr: no Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii ucf 3.0043+nmu1 tex-common recommends no packages. Versions of packages tex-common suggests: ii debhelper 13.11.6 Versions of packages texlive-base depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82 ii libpaper-utils 1.1.29 ii sensible-utils 0.0.20 ii texlive-binaries 2023.20230311.66589-3 ii ucf 3.0043+nmu1 ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1 Versions of packages texlive-base recommends: ii lmodern 2.005-1 Versions of packages texlive-base suggests: ii evince [postscript-viewer] 45~alpha-2 ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 10.01.2~dfsg-1 ii gv [postscript-viewer] 1:3.7.4-2+b1 ii perl-tk 1:804.036-1+b2 pn xpdf | pdf-viewer <none> pn xzdec <none> Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on: ii libc6 2.37-7 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-7 ii libfontconfig1 2.14.2-4 ii libfreetype6 2.13.2+dfsg-1 ii libgcc-s1 13.2.0-2 ii libgraphite2-3 1.3.14-1 ii libharfbuzz0b 8.0.1-1 ii libicu72 72.1-3 ii libkpathsea6 2023.20230311.66589-3 ii libmpfr6 4.2.0-1 ii libpaper1 1.1.29 ii libpixman-1-0 0.42.2-1 ii libpng16-16 1.6.40-1 ii libpotrace0 1.16-2 ii libptexenc1 2023.20230311.66589-3 ii libstdc++6 13.2.0-2 ii libsynctex2 2023.20230311.66589-3 ii libteckit0 2.5.11+ds1-1+b1 ii libtexlua53-5 2023.20230311.66589-3 ii libtexluajit2 2023.20230311.66589-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.8.6-1 ii libxaw7 2:1.0.14-1 ii libxi6 2:1.8-1+b1 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.3-3 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1.1 ii libxt6 1:1.2.1-1.1 ii libzzip-0-13 0.13.72+dfsg.1-1.1 ii perl 5.36.0-7 ii t1utils 1.41-4 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-3 Versions of packages texlive-binaries recommends: ii dvisvgm 3.1-1 ii texlive-base 2022.20230122-3 -- debconf information: texlive-base/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant: