tetex errors

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:37:19PM -0700, Henk Postma 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

This is incomplete.  Why isn't tetex-base configured?

If you run

  sudo dpkg --configure -a

do you get any error messages?

If you run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, are any packages kept back?

> 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.

Since LaTeX works for me on Dapper, I suggest you look into the package
configuration problem first.

Marius Gedminas
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