After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04, I reinstalled "texlive-lang-spanish" and it didn't seem to work either.
But weeks later I manually ran
sudo fmtutil --all
and now it works fine.
I say there are some bugs with the Debian scripts that are run when installing the "texlive-*" packages, but I guess not many people can confirm it.
Since this bug hasn't had much activity I guess it may be a non-issue after all.
Besides, Texlive 2008 is already out, and with the new package manager things may be different from now on.
After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04, I reinstalled "texlive- lang-spanish" and it didn't seem to work either.
But weeks later I manually ran
sudo fmtutil --all
and now it works fine.
I say there are some bugs with the Debian scripts that are run when installing the "texlive-*" packages, but I guess not many people can confirm it.
Since this bug hasn't had much activity I guess it may be a non-issue after all.
Besides, Texlive 2008 is already out, and with the new package manager things may be different from now on.