[tex-live] [texhax] Do not symlink when installing TeXLive 2008 on K/Ubuntu Intrepid or Debian systems

[R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar]

Norbert Preining wrote:

> Can you give me examples of packages NOT working correctly? because the
> texinfo GNU install-info should be new enough in TL2008 to deal with
> many packages.
> 
> Examples please ... best would be only the postinst code that calls the
> install-info ... Thanks

The packages were related to my installation of the prevu package.

Specifically, the gettext and wdiff packages were involved and the error 
message when I attempted removal of the not-fully installed packages was:
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2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up gettext (0.17-3ubuntu2) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing gettext (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up wdiff (0.5-18) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing wdiff (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  gettext
  wdiff
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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There were several other packages in the list when the first error 
message was displayed during installation, but since they could all be 
removed except for these two, and I did not note their names down.

Chandra