On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > - Purge all the old tex packages which are replaced by tetex. (E.g. go > into dselect, select the tetex-packages, look which old tex packages > are marked to be removed, purge the packages.) > > tetex replaces: amslatex, amstex, babel, bibtex, dvipsk, kpathsea, > kpathsea-dev, latex, latex2e-doc, ltxmisc, ltxtool, makeindex, > mfbasfnt, mfdcfnt, mflib, mfnfss, ps2pk, psnfss, texbin, texi2html, > texinfo, texlib, texpsfnt, textmf, xdvik
a cut & paste solution is: dpkg --purge --force-depends amslatex amstex babel bibtex dvipsk kpathsea kpathsea-dev latex latex2e-doc ltxmisc ltxtool makeindex mfbasfnt mfdcfnt mflib mfnfss ps2pk psnfss texbin texi2html texinfo texlib texpsfnt textmf xdvik note, the --force-depends is necessary. babel wont uninstall cleanly without it... Then use dpkg or dselect to install the tetex packages. (assuming you have a mirror of debian mounted at /debian:) cd /debian dpkg -i bo/binary/tex/tetex-base_0.4pl6-2.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-bin_0.4pl6-4.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-dev_0.4pl6-4.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-doc_0.4pl6-1.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-extra_0.4pl6-2.deb tetex-bin still comes up with some warning messages about "ls -lR" files missing - i don't know how serious this is...it does install cleanly. texconfig has an option to make the ls-lR files, so i doubt if it's big problem. Craig