Installation problem on Debian Sarge: install-data

Felix Gatzemeier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Thomas, hi list,

I have installed teTeX 3.0 from the distribution on a Debian system with 
up-to-date packges from the 'testing' branch.  In this configuration, 
teTeX's install-info conflicts with install-info from the dpkg package. 
  Of the latter, I have version 1.10.27 installed, but the problem may 
be older.  Debian's install-info accepts a -description="text" option, 
which teTeX's does not know about.  This blocks package management if 
the teTeX binary happens to be in root's path.

As a workaround, I have renamed the install-info symlink that I created 
from /usr/local/bin to the installation location.

The problem was probably introduced when updating dpkg after installing 
teTeX, so there is no real fix.

Greetings, Felix
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