evince should suggest textlive-base to read dvi

Bug #706889 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

Evince supports dvi format but without texlive-base it fails with the error:

$ evince /home/ubuntu/Ubuntu/mago/mago-2.0/mago-testsuite/evince/data/test.dvi
warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: /usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c.

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cmsy8
mktexpk: No such file or directory
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
page: Warning: font `cmsy8' at 600x600 not found, trying `cmr10' instead

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cmr10
mktexpk: No such file or directory
page: Warning: font `cmsy8' not found, trying metric files instead

kpathsea: Running mkofm cmsy8
mkofm: No such file or directory

kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmsy8
mktextfm: No such file or directory
page: Warning: metric file for `cmsy8' not found, trying `cmr10' instead

kpathsea: Running mkofm cmr10
mkofm: No such file or directory

kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmr10
mktextfm: No such file or directory
page: Error: could not load font `cmsy8'
warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: /usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c.

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cmsy8
mktexpk: No such file or directory
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
page: Warning: font `cmsy8' at 600x600 not found, trying `cmr10' instead

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cmr10
mktexpk: No such file or directory
page: Warning: font `cmsy8' not found, trying metric files instead

kpathsea: Running mkofm cmsy8
mkofm: No such file or directory

kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmsy8
mktextfm: No such file or directory
page: Warning: metric file for `cmsy8' not found, trying `cmr10' instead

kpathsea: Running mkofm cmr10
mkofm: No such file or directory

kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmr10
mktextfm: No such file or directory
page: Error: could not load font `cmsy8'

texlive-base should be in the suggest list of evince.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 24 12:54:02 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
SourcePackage: evince

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :
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Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 42410 (reported in 2006!), so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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