After upgrading to 20.04 my live tex distribution could not find style files and fonts so I used apt-get purge as a prelude to reinstalling. The purge failed with system errors: package tex-common 6.13 failed to install/upgrade: installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| tex-common (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
After upgrading to 20.04 my live tex distribution could not find style files and fonts so I used apt-get purge as a prelude to reinstalling. The purge failed with system errors: package tex-common 6.13 failed to install/upgrade: installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: tex-common 6.13
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-77-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
Date: Sat Jul 24 09:17:16 2021
ErrorMessage: installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-04 (932 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
PackageArchitec
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.10, python3-minimal, 3.8.2-0ubuntu2
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.18, python-is-python2, 2.7.17-4
RelatedPackageV
dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
apt 2.0.6
SourcePackage: tex-common
Title: package tex-common 6.13 failed to install/upgrade: installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2021-05-22 (62 days ago)
| David Brydges (db5d) wrote | #1 |
