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  1. Bug #301522
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Comment 4 for bug 301522

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R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar (chandra) wrote :

Sorry for the sloppiness. I was trying to understand what happened while I filed my comments.

I think the cause of this problem is my installation of TeXLive 2008 from DVD. That has put the GNU version of install-info before the Debian install-info. For more details, please see:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gv/+bug/316557

In essence, I have two install-info programs on my system:

/usr/sbin/install-info --version

gives
---
Debian install-info version 1.14.20ubuntu1.

Copyright (C) 1994,1995 Ian Jackson.
This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or
later for copying conditions. There is NO warranty.
---

whereas

/usr/local/bin/install-info --version

gives

---
install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.12

Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
---

This conflict is preventing clean package removal by dpkg because it sees the GNU rather than the Debian version. It might also be the reason why installation of prevu and its dependencies failed in the first place.

The /usr/local/bin/install-info was symlinked during the installation of TeXLive 2008 from DVD. If I remove the symlinks and add the paths to my .bashrc file, perhaps that will resolve the problem, because root's PATH will not see it.

Please let me know if you need any further info.

Thanks.