Debian-specific information about TeX packages
Chapter 5 - Problems, bug reports

If the installation failed, please check the following points:

• Is there enough room on your hard disk?
• Is there any privately-compiled TeX system besides the Debian packages?
• Does the command:

       kpsewhich --format=cnf texmf
  

  return /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf?

• Is texmf.cnf modified a lot? Please check /etc/texmf/texmf.d/.
• Did you set any TeX-related environment variable?
• Try again. This might work in some cases.
• For amstex, metapost, eurosym, texdoctk, txfonts, pxfonts, etc., you need tetex-extra at present. (pdftex/pdflatex should work basically only with tetex-base now.)
• Is your language.dat correct?

How to report a bug:

• Please calm down anyway. ;)
• Please check the Debian Bug Tracking System first.
• Please read carefully the error messages, if any. It will help both you and us.
• Please use reportbug and include all information it gathers
• Please attach a simple and short sample file which causes the problem you want to report.
• Be prepared that we will have to ask more questions: You should have time to exchange a couple of e-mails with us
• It will be helpful to show us the output of the command:

       ls /etc/texmf/texmf.d/*
  

• If you see something like:

       Unpacking replacement tetex-base ...
       dpkg: error processing /var/cache/../tetex-base_*_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config', which is also in package foo
  

  then the problem should be of package foo, not of tetex-base.

• Note that teTeX is not further developed upstream, and new features will only be integrated in TeX Live. The Debian maintainers will not include anything in the TeX Live packages that is not already in TeX Live upstream.

Debian-specific information about TeX packages