Am Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007 schrieb Frank Küster: Hello, > I think you all got bitten by #420390, "Purging tetex transition > packages removes texlive configuration files". > > This bug is solved now, but for those who already did purge, the only > solution is to reinstall the texlive packages (in particular > texlive-base and texlive-base-bin, but that might not be sufficient) > with the dpkg option --force-confmiss.
Yes, I had the same problem this morning and invoking "dpkg -i --force-confmiss texlive-base_2007-7_all.deb texlive-base-bin_2007-8_i386.deb" fixed it. Thank you and best regards, Jörg