Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-03-03 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcelo Magallon writes: > > On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > > > > > > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX > > > > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", > > > > "cool", etc

Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-03-02 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted > instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the > preinst script it is to late. Isn't this something that whoever it is maintaining dselect should fix? I don't think this

Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-03-02 Thread Lars Hallberg
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Dalley writes: > Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better > than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient > considering the number of users installing tetex. An notice and pointer to instructions in the package d

Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-03-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 1 Mar 1997, Kevin Dalley wrote: > Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better > than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient > considering the number of users installing tetex. > > Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Marcelo Ma

Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-03-01 Thread Kevin Dalley
Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient considering the number of users installing tetex. Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcelo Magallon writes: > > On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin

Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-02-28 Thread Rob Browning
Marcelo Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless we > want to see the question "How do I upgrade TeX?" n+1 times on > debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of "In dselect [R]emove > packages *first*, *then* [I]nstal

Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-02-28 Thread Christoph Martin
Marcelo Magallon writes: > On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > > > > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX > > > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", "cool", > > > etc. > > > > You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle a

Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-02-28 Thread Marcelo Magallon
On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX > > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", "cool", > > etc. > > You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one) the > replaces. Then, to t

Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-02-28 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Marcelo Magallon wrote: > The wierd thing is that "dpkg --remove latex" works... That didn't work for me. I had to remove my previous Debian TeX installation by *hand* (that is, using rm and not dpkg) because dpkg just gave me "script aborted with an error" when trying to use

Re: teTeX kind of broken

1997-02-28 Thread Christoph Martin
There is a serious problem/bug in dpkg that prevents the correct removal of the old tex packages and then the installation of tetex. dpkg can't handle multiple packages which are to be replaced. So, do the following: - Purge all the old tex packages which are replaced by tetex. (E.g. go into ds