Public bug reported: I installed texlive-binaries. During the install there were warnings
texlive-base is not ready, delaying updmap-sys call texlive-base is not ready, skipping fmtutil-sys --all call Running tex fails as: $ tex pp.tex This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt /usr/bin/mktexfmt: 974: /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr: not found fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'! which is corrected by installing texlive-base $ sudo apt-get install texlive-base Please consider texlive-binaries dependent on texlive-base Below is the log of texlive-binaries: $ sudo apt-get install texlive-binaries Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: tex-common texlive-common The following NEW packages will be installed: tex-common texlive-binaries texlive-common 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 8,257kB of archives. After this operation, 18.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main tex-common all 2.08 [725kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main texlive-common all 2009-10 [100kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main texlive-binaries i386 2009-7 [7,431kB] Fetched 8,257kB in 59s (139kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package tex-common. (Reading database ... 225983 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tex-common (from .../tex-common_2.08_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-common. Unpacking texlive-common (from .../texlive-common_2009-10_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-binaries. Unpacking texlive-binaries (from .../texlive-binaries_2009-7_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for doc-base ... Processing 2 added doc-base file(s)... Registering documents with scrollkeeper... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up tex-common (2.08) ... Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg with new version Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with new version Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. texlive-base is not ready, delaying updmap-sys call texlive-base is not ready, skipping fmtutil-sys --all call Setting up texlive-common (2009-10) ... Setting up texlive-binaries (2009-7) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw to provide /usr/bin/xdvi.bin (xdvi.bin) in auto mode. update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/bibtex.original to provide /usr/bin/bibtex (bibtex) in auto mode. mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: texlive-binaries 2009-7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Jan 21 19:41:04 2011 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: texlive-bin ** Affects: texlive-bin (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706150 Title: tex texlive-base is not ready, skipping fmtutil-sys --all call -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs