tetex errors

[Henk Postma]

On 6/3/06, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> 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?
>

Hi Marius,

Thanks for your help, I have solved the problem (see my followup email
later last friday). Simple dpkg-reconfigure did not solve the issue,
it would still leave it unconfigured, because the tetex-base
configuration would stop, with a message "! TeX capacity exceeded,
sorry [pattern memory=262143]."

I finally purged all tetex and tex-common, and removed manually some
extra config files, and did a clean reinstall. That solved it.

Thanks again, Henk