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texlive-base package

Install texlive-base hangs

Asked by Ben Bergen

Trying to install texlive-base hangs. I've tried this on a couple of different nodes (LTS 18.04) with the same result. I don't know if it makes a difference, but both of the machines I have tried this on are running in multi-user mode (runlevel 3). I'm not sure how to try to debug this...

>>>>>> apt install texlive-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  perl-tk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  texlive-base
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/18.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 53.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package texlive-base.
(Reading database ... 238354 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../texlive-base_2017.20180305-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking texlive-base (2017.20180305-1) ...
Processing triggers for tex-common (6.09) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (6.5.0.dfsg.1-2) ...
Setting up texlive-base (2017.20180305-1) ...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
tl-paper: setting paper size for dvips to a4: /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps
tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to a4: /var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-paper.cfg
tl-paper: setting paper size for xdvi to a4: /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

How to debug installation problems like this:

Edit the postinst script for the package with the problem with a text editor of your choice and activate script tracing.

e.g. in your case issue the command:
sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.postinst
(or sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.postinst)

insert the line
set -x
after the first block of comments, save the file and close the editor.

Then execute the command
sudo dpkg --configure -a
and you will see more details about the steps executed during package installation. Maybe this helps identifying where and why the installation stalls.

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