Error installing texlive-lang-norwegian (fmtutil-sys failed)

[Aleksander Blomskøld]

Binary package hint: texlive-lang-norwegian

texlive-lang-norwegian fails to install every time I try. Here's the output when I'm trying to install it in Ubuntu Edgy:

(...)
Writing extended state information... Done
Setting up texlive-lang-norwegian (2005-2) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --byhyphen language.dat. This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/texlive.fmtutil.Tbg32026
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing texlive-lang-norwegian (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texlive-lang-norwegian
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up texlive-lang-norwegian (2005-2) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --byhyphen language.dat. This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/texlive.fmtutil.YXi32369
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing texlive-lang-norwegian (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texlive-lang-norwegian

I'll include the whole /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.YXi32369 file, but I guess these are the important lines:

Hyphenation patterns for Norwegian
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pattern memory=262143].

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

(Debian maintainer speaking)
Sorry, this is bogus and should be re-assigned to teTeX. If you take a look at the log file you see that ALL files are taken from /usr/share/texmf-tetex, so it seems that texlive-lang-norwegian is NOT involved at all.
Ubuntu maintainers, do you check anything what is submitted??!?!?!
Bye Norbert

[Helge Reikeras (helge-reikeras)]

Hello
I think the solution for you is to remove tetex and install texlive. I am able to reproduse the error when I try to install texlive-lang-norwegian having tetex installed. With texlive installed instead installing textlive-lang-norwegian works fine.

Helge

[Mike Dahlgren (dahlgren)]

Thank you for doing your part to make Ubuntu better. Since this bug was
originally reported against Edgy Eft(6.10), I was wondering if this
can still reproduce this issue, or did Helge's solution fix it?

 Thanks,
     ~ Mike

[Aleksander Blomskøld (aleksabl)]

I've just tried to install the package on a hardy-PC. The installation was successful. I did not try to install tetex first, but as tetex is dead and deprecated I think you could close this bug now.

[Mike Dahlgren (dahlgren)]

Issue can no longer be reproduced by author of bug report in hardy. Marking this bug as fixed, if you believe this is in error, please reopen.

 Thanks,
   ~ Mike