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tex-common package

package tex-common 2.06 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #606551 reported by John Lockridge on 2010-07-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #581145: tex-common 2.06 doesn't install without texlive-base. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	tex-common (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

not sure what the bug is

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: tex-common 2.06
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 16 07:42:58 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: tex-common
Title: package tex-common 2.06 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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John Lockridge (tborg5) wrote on 2010-07-17:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (193 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (504 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (602 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (45.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (48.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2010-08-31

affects:

ubuntu → tex-common (Ubuntu)

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Michael Wagner (wagnerm) wrote on 2010-09-21:

postinst.in.patch Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain)

The postinst script gets/expects a wrong error code from dpkg-query. Replacing the occurrences of

stat=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Status}' texlive-base)

with

stat=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Status}' texlive-base || /bin/true)

resolves the issue.

See attached file (postinst.in.patch).

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2010-09-21

tags:

added: patch

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Kozley (kozley) wrote on 2010-10-08:

Okay but it say not packages match

stat=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Status}' texlive-base)
Inga paket matchar texlive-base.
kozley@kozley-desktop:~$ stat=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Status}' texlive-base || /bin/true)
Inga paket matchar texlive-base.