.. title: problems upgrading tetex-bin
.. slug: jadetex_problems
.. date: 2006-09-30 00:39:53
.. tags: computers, bluesock, debian

<p>
  I went to update bluesock today and had wicked problems when it
  tried to upgrade tetex-bin to version 3.0-18.  Every time it'd
  try to configure tetex-bin, it'd fail with this:
</p>
<pre class="code">
Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-18) ...
Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time... Error: `etex -ini  
-jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed
Error: `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &p
dflatex pdfjadetex.ini' failed
</pre>
<p>
  and lots of other output.
<?p>
<p>
  After futzing with things for a while I finally started skimming 
  the Debian BTS and discovered 
  <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334613">bug 334613</a>.
  Towards the bottom, Frank says that he can reproduce the bug by having
  jadetex installed before upgrading.
</p>
<p>
  So I did an <code>apt-get remove jadetex</code> then an
  <code>apt-get upgrade</code> and tetex-bin installed fine as did
  everything else.  Then I re-installed jadetex and docbook-utils and
  my system is happy again.
</p>
<p>
  Figured I'd mention it in case anyone else had the same problem.
</p>
<div class="update">
<p>
  Update: I have multiple systems: one desktop (running Ubuntu Dapper), 
  one laptop (running Ubuntu Edgy), and one server that I lease from 
  ServerBeach (running Debian Sid).  The jadetex problem I had was on 
  the server running Debian Sid.  I have no idea if the same problem 
  occurs on my Ubuntu boxen.  Figured I'd add that additional detail.
</p>
</div>