apt install issue with tex-common

[George N. White III]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 10:10 AM fbx.kaito <fbx.kaito at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> CONTEXT :
> after a unwanted dist-upgrade from Debian-stretch to Debian-bulleye I
> run into a tex-common config updating issue
>
> HERE IS MY SYSTEM
> what-debian-version.bash
> ******** uname -a  *********
> Linux BLACK 5.10.0-21-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.162-1 (2023-01-21) x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> ***** lsb_release -a *******
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:    Debian
> Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
> Release:    11
> Codename:    bullseye
> ***** cat os-release *******
> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
> NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
> VERSION_ID="11"
> VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
> VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
> ID=debian
> HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
> SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
> BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
>
>
> COMMAND used to produce the file :
> apt upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> Setting up tex-common (6.16) ...
> Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
> Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
> Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done.
> Building format(s) --all.
>      This may take some time...
> fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
> /tmp/fmtutil.1mLJvIbh
> Please include this file if you report a bug.
>
> dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
>   installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess
> returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   tex-common
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
fmtutil.1mLJvblh shows an error due to "mismatched" expl3 files.
Your /root/texmf directory has the conflicting file.  That directory is not
present in my debian system.

-- 
George N. White III
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