Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-18 Thread Victor Hugo Muñoz
El lun, 18 oct 2021 a las 9:07, Andrei POPESCU () escribió: > > On Vi, 15 oct 21, 10:39:54, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > > > Actually, yes. Why? Due to confinement, my home PC has also been my > > office PC. And > > since I had a working machine, decided to upgrade packages only if > > strictly nec

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 15 oct 21, 10:39:54, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > Actually, yes. Why? Due to confinement, my home PC has also been my > office PC. And > since I had a working machine, decided to upgrade packages only if > strictly necessary. As you found out (the hard way), the "strictly necessary" isn't

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/15/21, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 14 oct 21, 13:19:09, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: >> >> Yes, I know the risks :-) My office computer is in stable for that >> reason. This is my home computer. Anyway, >> I'm extremely conservative with upgrades, and do not upgrade if I >> think I'm going to

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-15 Thread Victor Hugo Muñoz
El vie, 15 oct 2021 a las 10:20, Greg Wooledge () escribió: > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:56:25AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Packages are not allowed to use dpkg features that are not present in > > stable. > > > > In this particular case, according to the changelog 'dpkg' introduced > >

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:56:25AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 14 oct 21, 13:47:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 01:51:07PM -0300, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > > And it looks that this worked! You were right, I had not the latest > > > version, so I upgraded dpkg, and

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 oct 21, 13:19:09, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > Yes, I know the risks :-) My office computer is in stable for that > reason. This is my home computer. Anyway, > I'm extremely conservative with upgrades, and do not upgrade if I > think I'm going to break something important, This may > be

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 oct 21, 13:47:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 01:51:07PM -0300, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > And it looks that this worked! You were right, I had not the latest > > version, so I upgraded dpkg, and yes, texlive-base passed the > > installation without errors. > > Is th

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 01:51:07PM -0300, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > And it looks that this worked! You were right, I had not the latest > version, so I upgraded dpkg, and yes, texlive-base passed the > installation without errors. Is this considered a bug in texlive-base, i.e. that it should cont

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-14 Thread harryweaver
15 Oct 2021, 02:41 by victor_mu...@uchile.cl: > El jue, 14 oct 2021 a las 13:35, Andrew M.A. Cater > () escribió: > >>> >>> >> It might be worth checking what packages you have installed. If you >> can manage to, uninstall them (or use dpkg --purge to purge texlive-base >> then retry. >> > > Tha

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-14 Thread Victor Hugo Muñoz
El jue, 14 oct 2021 a las 13:46, David Wright () escribió: > > I'm still running buster, but what that /looks/ like to me is that > you're running a version of dpkg that is, as yet, ignorant of the > ?new flags in packages' lists of conffiles. > > I say flags, but the only one defined is exactly th

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-14 Thread David Wright
On Thu 14 Oct 2021 at 13:19:09 (-0300), Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > El jue, 14 oct 2021 a las 12:46, The Wanderer () > escribió: > > On 2021-10-14 at 10:57, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > > > > > I'm having problems installing texlive in my PC. I'm using unstable > > > here. > > > > That may be the r

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-14 Thread Victor Hugo Muñoz
El jue, 14 oct 2021 a las 13:35, Andrew M.A. Cater () escribió: >> > It might be worth checking what packages you have installed. If you > can manage to, uninstall them (or use dpkg --purge to purge texlive-base > then retry. Thanks for the idea. It didn't work. texlive-base is not installed, so p

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-14 Thread Victor Hugo Muñoz
El jue, 14 oct 2021 a las 12:46, The Wanderer () escribió: > > On 2021-10-14 at 10:57, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > > Hello, everyone. > > > > I'm having problems installing texlive in my PC. I'm using unstable > > here. > > That may be the root problem, or at least, the best place to solve it. > T

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-14 Thread David Wright
On Thu 14 Oct 2021 at 11:57:05 (-0300), Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > I'm having problems installing texlive in my PC. I'm using unstable > here. > > Everything started a couple of days ago, when I needed the package > physics.sty. I had to install texlive-science. But dependences came > in, and s

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-10-14 at 10:57, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I'm having problems installing texlive in my PC. I'm using unstable > here. That may be the root problem, or at least, the best place to solve it. The basic rule of running unstable is "if it breaks, you get to keep all the

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:57:05AM -0300, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I'm having problems installing texlive in my PC. I'm using unstable > here. > > Everything started a couple of days ago, when I needed the package > physics.sty. I had to install texlive-science. But depende

Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-14 Thread Victor Hugo Muñoz
Hello, everyone. I'm having problems installing texlive in my PC. I'm using unstable here. Everything started a couple of days ago, when I needed the package physics.sty. I had to install texlive-science. But dependences came in, and somehow I got a lot of configuration errors, and installation w