tex texlive-base is not ready, skipping fmtutil-sys --all call

[Gábor Lipták]

I installed texlive-binaries. During the install there were warnings

texlive-base is not ready, delaying updmap-sys call
texlive-base is not ready, skipping fmtutil-sys --all call

Running tex fails as:

$ tex pp.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt
/usr/bin/mktexfmt: 974: /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr: not found
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'!

which is corrected by installing texlive-base

$ sudo apt-get install texlive-base

Please consider texlive-binaries dependent on texlive-base

Below is the log of texlive-binaries:

$ sudo apt-get install texlive-binaries
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  tex-common texlive-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  tex-common texlive-binaries texlive-common
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,257kB of archives.
After this operation, 18.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main tex-common all 2.08 [725kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main texlive-common all 2009-10 [100kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main texlive-binaries i386 2009-7 [7,431kB]
Fetched 8,257kB in 59s (139kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package tex-common.
(Reading database ... 225983 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tex-common (from .../tex-common_2.08_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package texlive-common.
Unpacking texlive-common (from .../texlive-common_2009-10_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package texlive-binaries.
Unpacking texlive-binaries (from .../texlive-binaries_2009-7_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 2 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up tex-common (2.08) ...

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg with new version

Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with new version
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
texlive-base is not ready, delaying updmap-sys call
texlive-base is not ready, skipping fmtutil-sys --all call
Setting up texlive-common (2009-10) ...
Setting up texlive-binaries (2009-7) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw to provide /usr/bin/xdvi.bin (xdvi.bin) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/bibtex.original to provide /usr/bin/bibtex (bibtex) in auto mode.
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: texlive-binaries 2009-7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 21 19:41:04 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: texlive-bin