package groff-base is missing file europs.tmac
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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groff (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Karmic |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: groff
This is on Ubuntu 9.10.
When trying to generate a Postscript file from a man page, I got this error message:
eeepc-ubuntu:
/usr/share/
eeepc-ubuntu:
At that time package groff-base but not package groff was installed. The file was indeed missing from the file system.
After that I installed the package groff and the problem went away. The file europs.tmac now exists.
The versions of groff and groff-base involved are these:
ii groff 1.20.1-5 GNU troff text-formatting system
ii groff-base 1.20.1-5 GNU troff text-formatting system (base syste
This seems to be identical to Debian bug 546844. As indicated in that bug report, the file europs.tmac should be in package groff-base and not in package groff.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 6 21:53:44 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: groff-base 1.20.1-5
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: groff
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(gnome-
(nautilus:2549): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(polkit-
(gnome-
Hmm, yes. Already fixed in Lucid, but this probably merits an update to Ubuntu 9.10.