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