[XeTeX] Installing XeTeX on Kubuntu Edgy with texlive packages

[Jonathan Kew]

On 22 Dec 2006, at 4:26 am, Felix Huang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> "R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" <chandra at ee.uwa.edu.au> writes:
>> Does this have to do with the change of default shell from bash to  
>> dash in
>> Kubuntu Edgy?
> Yes. Dash causes the postinst script to fail and it affects more than
> xetex package, plus it affects some packages that I tried to backport
> from feisty, such as gnupg2 and libksba. So I changed my default shell
> from dash to bash for compatibility.

Another workaround, without changing your default shell, would be to  
change the first line of the offending script to

#!/bin/bash

(The "real" fix is to correct the script so that it only uses  
standard /bin/sh features.)

JK