tetex errors, solved!

[Henk Postma]

On 6/2/06, Henk Postma <henkpm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> My latex installation on dapper has been messed up ever since it has been trying to update tetex. The errors are
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-extra:
>  tetex-extra depends on tetex-base (>=  3.0-11); however:
>   Package tetex-base is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing tetex-extra (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>
> After a lot of digging, I have traced it to the following message
>
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pattern memory=262143].
>
> Unfortunately, running latex on a regular .tex file now also breaks with the same message.
>
> Please help, I need latex on a daily basis ...

For the archives

I managed to get everything working by removing all tetex* packages,
and tex-common. I had to purge the files in /etc/texmf and
/etc/language manually and reload them with the versions in the
tex-common.deb before I got everything to properly install again with
apt-get. It works again :)

cheers, Henk

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