tex live instalation crashes - dependency problem

[jm]

Binary package hint: texlive-base

During instalation I get the information that there is a dependency problem. It fail during fmtutil-sys.

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

On Mi, 24 Okt 2007, jm wrote:
> During instalation I get the information that there is a dependency
> problem. It fail during fmtutil-sys.

And it tells you to send a file, something like
 /tmp/fmtutil.XXXXXX
Please do this, or we cannot do anything.

Best wishes

Norbert

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[Timo Voipio (tvoipio)]

Xubuntu 7.10, texlive-base-bin 2007-12ubuntu3.1 post-installation script fails with

Setting up texlive-base-bin (2007-12ubuntu3.1) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all.
        This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.jbdq6626
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Please see the attached file. I'll gladly provide more details upon request, as writing a thesis without a working LaTeX installation is... painful.

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

On Fr, 11 Jan 2008, Timo Voipio wrote:
> /tmp/fmtutil.jbdq6626

contains "modes.mf" missing. Another instance of the same bug.

You purged tetex-base/bin some time ago which removed modes.mf.

dpkg -i --force-conf-missing ..../texlive-base_2007-13_all.deb

or whatever your version of texlive-base is. Needs to be at least -11.

But can be closed. Is well known, hundreds of times reported. Fixed as
far as possible in the current packages.

Best wishes

Norbert

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[jimmie_james_42 (jimmie-james-42)]

E: texlive-base: failed in buffer_read(fd)
E: texlive-fonts-recommended: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: texlive-latex-base: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: texlive-latex-recommended: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: texlive: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: tetex-bin: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

this is what i says after the install failed.

I hope that this helps, and can be corrected.

sincerely,
jimmie_james_42