[12:12] <robottinosino> hi, i am having problems installing LaTeX. example: dpkg: error processing texlive-base (--configure)
[12:21] <robottinosino> What debugging info should I provide?
[12:23] <mitya57> robottinosino: is there anything after that line?
[12:24] <robottinosino> hi mitya57, and thanks for helping.
[12:24] <robottinosino> screenfuls of error messages, even overflowing (as in: No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already)
[12:24] <mitya57> robottinosino: please pastebin those messages somewhere (or show a screenshot)
[12:25] <robottinosino> No problem to pastebin, where can I get the "log" from dpkg?
[12:25] <mitya57> also, which release are you using?
[12:25] <mitya57> /var/log/dpkg.log, but the printed error messages are usually more helpful
[12:28] <robottinosino> 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] <mitya57> robottinosino: please paste from terminal (not ones coming from apport, but ones coming from dpkg/apt)
[12:29]  * robottinosino working on it..
[12:30] <robottinosino> release is: raring (but after an upgrade)
[12:31] <mitya57> !pastebinit | robottinosino
[12:31] <mitya57> ^ you can use that, it makes things easier
[12:37] <robottinosino> mitya57: thank you.
[12:37] <robottinosino> mitya57: here is a start: http://sprunge.us/RGEj
[12:40] <mitya57> robottinosino: looks like texlive-base postinst script fails without any error message :(
[12:40] <robottinosino> bad times :(
[12:41] <robottinosino> i can apt-get remove --purge manyThings
[12:41] <robottinosino> should i?
[12:42] <mitya57> robottinosino: can you please run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure texlive-base" and paste the output?
[12:43] <robottinosino> of course i can. thanks again for "staying with this"..
[12:44] <robottinosino> I am using the system directly as root, not sudo'ing, should I try doing the same routine as "tinosino"?
[12:44] <robottinosino> could that be the problem?
[12:44] <mitya57> that shouldn't matter
[12:44] <robottinosino> i noticed when you said "sudo ..."
[12:45] <robottinosino> output: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: texlive-base is broken or not fully installed
[12:46] <mitya57> robottinosino: sorry, that command should be "dpkg --configure texlive-base" instead
[12:47] <robottinosino> sudo: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found
[12:47] <robottinosino> right...
[12:48] <mitya57> robottinosino: stop, why do you have version 2009-15 on raring?
[12:48] <mitya57> it should be 2012.20120611-5...
[12:49] <robottinosino> oh... i have no idea why... here the output: http://sprunge.us/DDVU
[12:50] <robottinosino> should i apt-get remove --purge stuff... then you can tell me which package name to install?
[12:50] <mitya57> 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] <robottinosino> right...
[12:51] <mitya57> robottinosino: did you upgrade from precise to raring?
[12:51] <mitya57> and did you have texlive installed before upgrade?
[12:51] <robottinosino> i googled before coming here and i did see many other people struggling
[12:52] <robottinosino> as a matter of fact
[12:53] <robottinosino> 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] <mitya57> robottinosino: so you upgraded from 12.04 to 13.04, right?
[12:55] <mitya57> and did you have texlive installed before upgrade?
[12:55] <robottinosino> in one system, yes
[12:55] <robottinosino> yes, i did
[12:55] <mitya57> robottinosino: as a workaround, you can purge all texlive* packages and then try to install them back
[12:56] <robottinosino> that's what i wanted to do :) thanks for giving me the go-ahead! :)
[12:56] <robottinosino> apt-get remove --purge texlive* ?
[12:57] <mitya57> robottinosino: yes, that should work
[12:57] <robottinosino> mitya57: thank you
[12:57] <mitya57> we of course should fix texlive in precise also, maybe I'll look at it but not today
[12:58] <robottinosino> mitya57: right..
[12:59] <robottinosino> all's gone. apt-get returned
[13:13] <robottinosino> mitya57: i am reinstalling texlive to try again
[13:14] <robottinosino> family calls though.. so i can't spend all day on this.. i'll be back with more info
[13:14] <robottinosino> mitya57: thanks a lot for your help so far, i appreciate it a lot
[13:40] <robottinosino> 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] <mitya57> that's strange
[13:44] <robottinosino> mitya57: you know what? that _totally_ baffles me
[13:45] <robottinosino> 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
[22:39] <cjwatson> Aha, I think I might be able to finish the libgd2->libgd3 (plus intertangled net-snmp) transition tonight
[23:10] <cjwatson> ... except missed a bit in the transition tracker.  drat