Bug#79213: no texmf.cnf file: cannot install tetex on up-to-date woody

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

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sander@rotzorg.org writes:
 > Package: tetex-bin
 > Version: 1.0.7+20000807-5
 > 
 > Today i retried installing teTeX on my Debian GNU woody system. This system is kept up-to-date except for teTeX because of the big downloads it gave. I have tried updating several time, always failing with an post-inst message saying:
 > 
 > Setting up tetex-bin (1.0.7+20000807-5) ...
 > mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
 > mktexlsr: Done.
 > /usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN in texmf.cnf file.
 > /usr/bin/texconfig: set TEXMFCNF variable to the directory where teTeX's texmf.cnf file is in.
 > dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
 >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
 > 
 > I have looked in /etc/texmf/, but found no /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf file there.
 > 
 > Today i first removed the complete teTeX from my system and tried reinstalling. I do get the same error: No $TEXMFMAIN in texmf.cnf file.
 > 
 > Investigating this, i found that during the unpack fase of the installation, there are a lot of files created in /etc/texmf, but after configuring, these files are gone. The only files remaining are /etc/texmf/dvips/dvips.pdf and the directory /etc/texmf/pdftex.
 > 

May it have been, that your disk was full, so that the confiles could
not be written?

What happens if you try to reinstall tetex-bin?

C