https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=879161 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=879161#c0 Summary: broken dependencies when trying to use pdflatex Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jmatejek@suse.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- when a program tells me that I need pdflatex, it involves several steps to install it: 1. cnf finds `pdflatex` in package `texlive-latex-bin-bin` 2. this installs a broken symlink `/usr/bin/pdflatex` that points to `pdftex` 3. cnf finds `pdftex` in package `texlive-pdftex-bin` 4. `pdftex` seems to invoke `kpathsea`, which in turn calls `mktexfmt`, which is missing 5. cnf finds `mktexfmt` in package `texlive-kpathsea-bin` 6. this installs a broken symlink `/usr/bin/mktexfmt` that points to `fmtutil` 7. ...which lives in `texlive-tetex-bin` 8. ...and is itself a broken symlink to `/usr/share/texmf/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.sh` 9. which can't be found by cnf anymore 10. guesswork gets me to install texlive-tetex 11. and after rerunning, i find out that this time it's /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr that is missing so at this point, i don't have a working pdflatex, because i'm unwilling to "just give up" and install the whole of texlive (which I suspect is what i'll end up doing anyway) all these packages should have transitive dependencies, so that installing texlive-latex-bin-bin, as suggested by cnf, pulls in everything required to actually use pdflatex (and the other executables) <troll>(or maybe texlive shouldn't at all be split into microscopic packages that don't work without each other anyway)</troll> -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.