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[Matt Joyce <1236951@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Got around my foul up in a REALLY ugly manner.

started with a couple iterations of :

 dpkg -l | grep texlive | awk '{print $2}' | sort | xargs dpkg -r

this cleared out a lot of the easy to hit cruft with no dependency
issues.

Then I finished off by hitting what i could with specific called out
dependencies listed as well.  Ended up with a short set of packages that
COULD NOT BE REMOVED.

I think I spotted a circular dependency in texlive / latex:

http://paste.openstack.org/show/116132/

would not be the first time ubuntu has fucked up and let one of those
into their mainline.

Anyway I ended up hitting all four of those with a scary ass

dpkg --force-depends -P for the four of those packages.

That left me ready to resume with an apt-get -f install

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

Status in “tex-common” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “tex-common” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  While updating from 13.04 to 13.10, I was prompted with a crash
  dialog, then a "will automatically revert (?)" dialogue...

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: tex-common 4.04
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.23-lowlatency 3.8.13.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct  8 12:11:33 2013
  DuplicateSignature: package:tex-common:4.04:ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-12 (482 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: tex-common
  Title: package tex-common 4.04 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-08 (0 days ago)

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