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I use Ubuntu 12.04. I had the texlive 2009 and wanted to upgrade to 2012 but it did not go very well. Now I am trying to get back to 2009. I removed texlive from the system (or so I think) and removed repo for texlive-backports updated and upgraded apt-get. Then I tried to install texlive. I get the error:

texlive depends on texlive-fonts-recommended (>= 2009-1); however:


Package texlive-fonts-recommended is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-extra-utils:
 texlive-extra-utils depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-extra-utils (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-font-utils:
 texlive-font-utils depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-font-utils (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tipa:
 tipa depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing tipa (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-base:
 texlive-latex-base depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-base (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-recommended:
 texlive-latex-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
 texlive-latex-recommended depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2009-1); however:
  Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-recommended (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-xcolor:
 latex-xcolor depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-xcolor (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common
 pgf
 latex-beamer
 texlive-generic-recommended
 texlive-pstricks
 prosper
 texlive-fonts-recommended
 texlive
 texlive-extra-utils
 texlive-font-utils
 tipa
 texlive-latex-base
 texlive-latex-recommended
 latex-xcolor
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any ideas???

Hisham

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Welcome to TeX.SE! For the removal of your old system, see How to remove everything related to TeX Live for fresh install on Ubuntu? For the installation of the new distribution see How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu? – cmhughes Mar 13 at 0:30
In addition to what cmhughes says, I wonder if you might be better asking on AskUbuntu as this is really a question primarily about how the packaging system works there. – Joseph Wright Mar 13 at 6:55
Thanks guys the error was caused by classes I installed for my university documents. Now everything is working nicely. – Hisham Mar 24 at 15:05

closed as too localized by Speravir, David Carlisle, percusse, Stefan Kottwitz Apr 6 at 23:02

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