It appears the ls-R* files had been left in an unusable state: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71 2007-04-11 09:44 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
$ od /var/lib/texmf/ls-R 0000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 * 0000100 000000 000000 000000 000000 0000107 The file -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 666 2007-04-11 09:44 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN is full of 0s as well $ cat /dev/null > /var/lib/texmf/ls-R $ cat /dev/null > /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN and ran mktexlsr a few times until the error messages about no usable entries in the respective files had gone away. After that, reinstalling tetex-bin worked fine. dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_3.0-27ubuntu1_i386.deb Same for tetex-extra and texmacs-common and texmacs. -- [apport] package tetex-bin failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108470 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
