[tex-live] Installing xz-utils to unpack TeX ive 2009 on Kubuntu 9.10

[R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar]

George N. White III wrote:

> Use "aptitude" and you will see that xz-utils is intended to replace lzma, so
> in this case it should be OK.  On my Ubuntu 9.20 system dpkg-dev (which I
> used to create a dummy texlive package so the dependencies of other packages
> on texlive are satisfied) depends on lzma, but the dependency is
> satisfied by xz-utils.

Thank you.

I was able to install xz-utils without any dramas using aptitude. Just 
for the record, here is the transcript for

sudo aptitude install xz-utils

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   xz-utils
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   lzma{a}
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 166kB of archives. After unpacking 209kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ftp.iinet.net.au karmic/universe xz-utils 
4.999.8beta-0ubuntu2 [166kB]
Fetched 166kB in 0s (382kB/s)
dpkg: lzma: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
  dpkg depends on lzma.
  dpkg-dev depends on lzma; however:
   Package lzma is to be removed.
(Reading database ... 466924 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lzma ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously deselected package xz-utils.
(Reading database ... 466915 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xz-utils (from .../xz-utils_4.999.8beta-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up xz-utils (4.999.8beta-0ubuntu2) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
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As you have explained, lzma is indeed provided by xz-utils and dpkg 
seems to work fine after xz-utils was installed.

Chandra