=== Zic is now known as Guest19585 === psusi_ is now known as psusi === FlannelKing is now known as Flannel === nhandler_ is now known as nhandler === Logan_ is now known as Guest19720 === Guest83934 is now known as Logan_ === Logan_ is now known as Guest24881 === Guest19720 is now known as Logan_ === Logan_ is now known as Guest52577 === JanC_ is now known as JanC === mitya57_ is now known as mitya57 === Guest19585 is now known as Zic [12:12] hi, i am having problems installing LaTeX. example: dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--configure) [12:21] What debugging info should I provide? [12:23] robottinosino: is there anything after that line? [12:24] hi mitya57, and thanks for helping. [12:24] screenfuls of error messages, even overflowing (as in: No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already) [12:24] robottinosino: please pastebin those messages somewhere (or show a screenshot) [12:25] No problem to pastebin, where can I get the "log" from dpkg? [12:25] also, which release are you using? [12:25] /var/log/dpkg.log, but the printed error messages are usually more helpful [12:28] mitya57: Ok, so i need to copy/paste those from gnome-terminal? (it's a few screens of them) Or just pastebin the dpkg.log? [12:29] robottinosino: please paste from terminal (not ones coming from apport, but ones coming from dpkg/apt) [12:29] * robottinosino working on it.. [12:30] release is: raring (but after an upgrade) [12:31] !pastebinit | robottinosino [12:31] robottinosino: pastebinit is the command-line equivalent of !pastebin - Command output, or other text can be redirected to pastebinit, which then reports an URL containing the output - To use pastebinit, install the « pastebinit » package from a package manager - Simple usage: command | pastebinit -b http://paste.ubuntu.com [12:31] ^ you can use that, it makes things easier [12:37] mitya57: thank you. [12:37] mitya57: here is a start: http://sprunge.us/RGEj [12:40] robottinosino: looks like texlive-base postinst script fails without any error message :( [12:40] bad times :( [12:41] i can apt-get remove --purge manyThings [12:41] should i? [12:42] robottinosino: can you please run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure texlive-base" and paste the output? [12:43] of course i can. thanks again for "staying with this".. [12:44] I am using the system directly as root, not sudo'ing, should I try doing the same routine as "tinosino"? [12:44] could that be the problem? [12:44] that shouldn't matter [12:44] i noticed when you said "sudo ..." [12:45] output: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: texlive-base is broken or not fully installed [12:46] robottinosino: sorry, that command should be "dpkg --configure texlive-base" instead [12:47] sudo: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found [12:47] right... [12:48] robottinosino: stop, why do you have version 2009-15 on raring? [12:48] it should be 2012.20120611-5... [12:49] oh... i have no idea why... here the output: http://sprunge.us/DDVU [12:50] should i apt-get remove --purge stuff... then you can tell me which package name to install? [12:50] robottinosino: 2009-15 was in precise, and looks like it was really broken (I see lots of "installation failed" bug reports at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-base/) [12:51] right... [12:51] robottinosino: did you upgrade from precise to raring? [12:51] and did you have texlive installed before upgrade? [12:51] i googled before coming here and i did see many other people struggling [12:52] as a matter of fact [12:53] in the meantime i have got a VM up, to have a fresh install, and that fails too.. but the vm is 12.04 (please don't be confused by this, it's just an attempt i made on the side, to see whether i could quickly compile my latex and get on with the week-end.. :) so... it's failing in 12.04 fresh and in 13.04 upgraded.. [12:54] robottinosino: so you upgraded from 12.04 to 13.04, right? [12:55] and did you have texlive installed before upgrade? [12:55] in one system, yes [12:55] yes, i did [12:55] robottinosino: as a workaround, you can purge all texlive* packages and then try to install them back [12:56] that's what i wanted to do :) thanks for giving me the go-ahead! :) [12:56] apt-get remove --purge texlive* ? [12:57] robottinosino: yes, that should work [12:57] mitya57: thank you [12:57] we of course should fix texlive in precise also, maybe I'll look at it but not today [12:58] mitya57: right.. [12:59] all's gone. apt-get returned [13:13] mitya57: i am reinstalling texlive to try again [13:14] family calls though.. so i can't spend all day on this.. i'll be back with more info [13:14] mitya57: thanks a lot for your help so far, i appreciate it a lot [13:40] it is my duty to report that i tried installing texlive-full (even..) on 12.04 LTS and that succeeds if run with sudo as user tinosino and _fails_ (!!) if run just the same but as root, without sudo... [13:42] that's strange [13:44] mitya57: you know what? that _totally_ baffles me [13:45] and that confusion, for me.. (in my case, not yours) is a total sign of ignorance.. i just realise i dont' really _understand_ the difference btw sudo and direct login === mapreri_ is now known as mapreri === mapreri is now known as Guest58298 === hggdh_ is now known as hggdh === txwikinger2 is now known as txwikinger [22:39] Aha, I think I might be able to finish the libgd2->libgd3 (plus intertangled net-snmp) transition tonight [23:10] ... except missed a bit in the transition tracker. drat