Last week I tried to remove and then reinstall Babel3.6-4 and faced the same bug that someone wrote about last week (I had previously sent a bug report in to the bug-reports address). The error involved MakeTeXTeX filling the drive with the endless loop of trying to make a non-existent (that I can have yet to find) manfnt.mf (if I remembering correctly).
dpkg now sees this package sitting there broken. it can't install it and it can't purge it because it always gets stuck in this loop. I haven't heard anything back about either the bug report or the message in this list. How can this be fixed? So far anything I've wanted to install has gone very smoothly. Do I have to completely remove TeX and then reinstall it? (ugh) or is there someway to get Babel to either get installed or purged (I really don't need it, but it won't hurt to have it there) I was content to just have it sit there broken while waiting for word from someone, but now I find that I can't use TeX or LaTeX because it thinks Babel is still there and functional. -- David Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The fundamental question in life is whether we live it from the outside in or from the inside out. - Fritz Perls (founder, Gestalt therapy) --- Home Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ ---