package tex-common 2.06 failed to install/upgrade: exit status 1 - Kein Paket gefunden, das auf texlive-base passt.

[Majestyx]

Binary package hint: tex-common

i have install: vim anf then the tex tools for vim - synaptic crashes. this bugreport is a part of: Bug #536713

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 10 15:40:50 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ErrorMessage: Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: tex-common 2.06
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: tex-common
Title: package tex-common 2.06 failed to install/upgrade: Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

[unmacaque (unmacaque)]

Trying to install tex-common in a live environment of Ubuntu 10.04 beta 2 fails:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install tex-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
tex-common is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up tex-common (2.06) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
No packages found matching texlive-base.
dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-binaries:
 texlive-binaries depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-binaries (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dvipng:
 dvipng depends on texlive-base-bin; however:
  Package texlive-base-bin is not installed.
  Package texlive-binaries which provides texlive-base-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dvipng (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                    Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common
 texlive-binaries
 dvipng
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[unmacaque (unmacaque)]

A workaround for those who manually try to install texlive-binaries or any other application depending on it:

Remove the errorneous packages, then install tex-common first, followed by texlive-binaries and finally the application you are trying to install.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

For me this was fixed by installing texlive-base as
"No packages found matching texlive-base."
indicates.

[Kristian Rink (kawazu)]

Resolved this the same way Philip Muškovac suggested.

[Marcel Miebach (marcel-miebach)]

Same problem with fresh installation of ubuntu 10.04 i686.
Installed today, updated and then tried to install some packages (perhaps vim-latexsuite).
How Philip Muškovac said I installed texlive-base and everything seems to work now.