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[Katherine Hajer <the.eyrea@xxxxxxxxx>]

I did some searching on this error, and have managed to fix it on my
machine. The solution is (to me) risky and not very elegant, but if you
want to try it, here it is:

sudo apt-get remove tex-common
sudo rm -rf /etc/texmf
sudo apt-get install tex-common
   *** This will generate errors, because the command two lines above blew away the config files. In the error message, Ubuntu will note which commands need to be run to recreate the config files. Run these commands one at a time, running "sudo" before each one (I tried running them together as listed and only the first one worked. No surprise there.) Once the config files are recreated, run the sudo apt-get install tex-common command again. This time it should run with no errors.
sudo apt-get install texlive-*
   *** If all has gone well to this point, the texlive install will ask you several times if you want to install generic config files to replace missing ones (because you blew them away when you ran the "rm" command above). Always be sure to answer "y". Note the default is "n", so you can't just hit the Enter key to get past the prompt.

H/T to the discussion thread on AskUbuntu found here:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/512848/tex-common-troubleshooting-on-
ubuntu-14-04-lts

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1270410

Title:
  package tex-common 4.04 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
  installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Status in tex-common package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This was generated while doing upgrade to newest ubuntu, upgrader
  stopped unity crashed and I had to cntrl/alt f2 to get a terminal and
  had to "sudo killall dpkg" and then "sudo dpkg --configure -a" several
  times to complete the upgrade to the point it was safe to reboot into
  a stable environment.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: tex-common 4.04
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Jan 18 05:00:25 2014
  DuplicateSignature: package:tex-common:4.04:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-05-07 (986 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: tex-common
  Title: package tex-common 4.04 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-01-18 (0 days ago)

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