updmap-sys fails on install due to missing dvips35.map file

[Daniel Richard G.]

Binary package hint: lmodern

On an Ubuntu Gutsy system, installing a full TeX/LaTeX suite in one go:

====BEGIN TERMINAL SESSION====
apt-get install lmodern tetex-doc-nonfree tetex-extra texlive-generic-extra texpower
[...]

Setting up lmodern (1.010x-3) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist or is not a directory
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.fPR29844
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

dpkg: error processing lmodern (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up texlive-common (2007-10) ...
[...]
====END TERMINAL SESSION====

The output of updmap-sys:

====BEGIN /tmp/updmap.fPR29844====
updmap: This is updmap, version 1167072206
updmap: using transcript file `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.log'

updmap is creating new map files using the following configuration:

  config file: `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg'
  dvips output directory: `/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap'
  pdftex output directory: `/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap'
  dvipdfm output directory: `/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap'

  prefer outlines: `true'
  texhash enabled: `true'
  download standard fonts (dvips): `false'
  download standard fonts (pdftex): `true'
  download standard fonts (dvipdfm): `true'

updmap: Scanning for LW35 support files

!!! ERROR! The map file `dvips35.map' has not been found at all.

    Either put this file into the right place or remove the
    reference from the configuration files - see
    update-updmap(1).

====END /tmp/updmap.fPR29844====

The dvips35.map file is correctly installed as /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/dvips35.map by the texlive-base-bin package, and re-running "apt-get install lmodern" after the above installation causes the package configuration to complete successfully.

I believe this is a case where the lmodern package attempted to install itself too early in the process, before the necessary file was in place, and that an appropriate inter-package dependency may address the problem.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Confirmed by duplicate.

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

This bug no longer occurs on Jaunty, nor on (I think) Intrepid, so I'm closing it. Please reopen if it is observed again.

[asala (asala)]

I hit this bug upgrading from natty to oneiric 11.10.

It asks for dvips35.map which has not been found at all... when installing tex-common...

however, it is NOT a latex bug but a corrupt locale bug. which subsequently affects Latex, Kile and the like...

doing:

cd /usr/lib/locale
sudo mv locale-archive locale-archive_old
sudo LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" dpkg-reconfigure texlive-binaries
sudo LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" aptitude upgrade

solved the dependency problem.

See the corrupt locale bug #663694