Hi Norbert, thanks for the quick reply.
> On Sam, 19 Mai 2007, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > I was doing a regular apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and got stuck > > over the package 'tipa'. I've tried removing it and get clobbered > > by texlive-pdfetex trying to configure itself, so I'm filing here. > > Are you using etch or sid? On sid we are at texlive 2007 ... This system is only using 'lenny' packages, from official d.o mirrors. % cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free > > Setting up texlive-pdfetex (2005.dfsg.2-12) ... > > Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. > > Building format(s) --byfmt etex. This may take some time... > > fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in > > /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.Iwa27687 > > Please include this file if you report a bug. > > ... apt-get log truncated ... > > > > # cat /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.Iwa27687 > > fmtutil: format `etex' not available. > > This is strange. > > Can you tell us which files you have in > /etc/texmf/fmt.d There is some kind of problem there, a not-yet-installed config... % ls -lrt /etc/texmf/fmt.d total 10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1364 2006-08-24 20:57 00tex.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3328 2006-09-08 08:14 01tetex.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 565 2006-11-22 22:19 50cyrtexinfo.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 389 2007-01-15 22:12 10texlive-latex-base.cnf.dpkg-new -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446 2007-02-21 21:52 10texlive-base-bin.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 401 2007-02-21 21:52 10texlive-pdfetex.cnf > and whether there is a file > /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdfetex.cnf > it should contain lines for etex. It does... % cat /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdfetex.cnf # # 10texlive-pdfetex.cnf # # You really can change stuff in this file, but it is NOT RECOMMENDED # to play around with this file if you do not know what you are doing! # Please leave this comment! # -_- DebPkgProvidedMaps -_- # etex pdfetex language.def -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini pdfetex pdfetex language.def -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini > Then check > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf > for ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdftex.cnf > it should be included. It seems to be included, if you meant "10texlive-pdfetex.cnf" % grep From /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tex.cnf ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base-bin.cnf ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdfetex.cnf ### From file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/50cyrtexinfo.cnf % grep End /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ### End of file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tex.cnf ### End of file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-base-bin.cnf ### End of file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-pdfetex.cnf ### End of file: /etc/texmf/fmt.d/50cyrtexinfo.cnf Cheers Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]