Comment 32 for bug 24478

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In , FlashCode (flashcode) wrote : Re: Bug#335303: tetex-bin: failed to install: updmap error

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:25:47PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>
> So this is not a bug, but a local misconfiguration. In order to fix
> your system, I think the best way is to do the following:
>
> - copy /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf to a safe place
>
> - Add a file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/99local.cnf which contains an arbitrary
> comment (a line starting with %).
>
> - as root, run update-texmf, and when asked about the changed files,
> choose to accept the maintainer's version.
>
> This should give you a working system. However, you lost any local
> configurations, they are saved in the copy of texmf.cnf. In case you
> want to keep all or some of them, run a diff between the copy and the
> newly generated texmf.cnf, find out to which file in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/
> the difference correspond(s), and then *edit*the*files*in*texmf.d*. Do
> not edit texmf.cnf directly! After that, you can remove the 99local.cnf
> file, and run update-texmf again.
>

Still doesn't work.
I removed then reinstalled package and now all is ok.
I suppose as you said that there was local misconfiguration.

You can close the bug, thanks for support.

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Cordialement / Best regards
Sebastien.

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