dpkg's install-info conflicts with teTeX's install-info

[Christoph Bier]

Installation and/or upgrade of some packages (at least wget, gv, cpio,
util-linux, info, texinfo) fails with "subprocess post-installation script
returned error exit status 1" because install-info from teTeX is called instead
of install-info from dpkg. I installed teTeX-3.0 from source some months ago and
it took me a very long time to find the cause for the problems with
installations/upgrades. Here is some more information:

chris@skull:~$ which install-info
/usr/local/bin/install-info

chris@skull:~$ ls -l `which install-info`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2005-08-07 13:30
/usr/local/bin/install-info -> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/install-info

chris@skull:~$ echo $PATH
/home/chris/adabas/bin:/home/chris/adabas/pgm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games

A workaround was to temporarily change PATH to
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
But this is no long-time solution. Martin Pitt proposed to "hardcode a sensible
$PATH in the scripts".

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 24246.