Problems in texlive

[viniciusbrbio]

Hi,

I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 and I have some issues with texlive packages.

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-fonts-extra-doc_2017.20180305-2_all.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/mweights/README', which is also in package texlive-latex-extra-doc 2015.20160320-1

When I try to fix it:

viniciusbr@viniciusbr:~$ sudo apt-get -f install 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
 fonts-cabin fonts-comfortaa fonts-ebgaramond fonts-ebgaramond-extra fonts-font-awesome fonts-freefont-otf
 fonts-gfs-artemisia fonts-gfs-complutum fonts-gfs-didot fonts-gfs-neohellenic fonts-gfs-olga fonts-gfs-solomos
 fonts-junicode fonts-lobster fonts-lobstertwo fonts-oflb-asana-math fonts-sil-gentium fonts-sil-gentium-basic
 fonts-sil-gentiumplus libfile-homedir-perl libice-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libpython3.6-minimal libsm-dev
 libx11-dev libx11-doc libxau-dev libxcb1-dev libxdmcp-dev libxt-dev libyaml-tiny-perl linux-signed-generic-hwe-16.04
 linux-signed-image-generic-hwe-16.04 ps2eps python3.6-minimal texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-pstricks-doc
 x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xorg-sgml-doctools xtrans-dev
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
 fontconfig-config libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libharfbuzz0b libkpathsea6 libmpc3 libmpfr6 libpoppler73 libptexenc1
 libsynctex1 libtexlua52 libtexluajit2 texlive-base texlive-binaries texlive-fonts-extra-doc
 texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-lang-english texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
 texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-pictures
 texlive-pictures-doc texlive-plain-generic texlive-pstricks-doc
Suggested packages:
 perl-tk python-pygments icc-profiles libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl texlive-pstricks dot2tex prerex ruby-tcltk
 | libtcltk-ruby vprerex
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 libmpfr6 libpoppler73 texlive-binaries texlive-plain-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
 fontconfig-config libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libharfbuzz0b libkpathsea6 libmpc3 libptexenc1 libsynctex1 libtexlua52
 libtexluajit2 texlive-base texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-lang-english
 texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc
 texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks-doc
24 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2012 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/1072 MB of archives.
After this operation, 323 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 292547 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../texlive-fonts-extra-doc_2017.20180305-2_all.deb ...
Unpacking texlive-fonts-extra-doc (2017.20180305-2) over (2015.20160320-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-fonts-extra-doc_2017.20180305-2_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/mweights/README', which is also in package texlive-latex-extra-doc 2015.20160320-1
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-fonts-extra-doc_2017.20180305-2_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Many thanks

[GreyGeek]

There is a pair of command which should be used:
sudo apt -f install
sudo dpkg --configure -a

Repeat them several times. IF that doesn't work then perhaps selectively deleting certain packages and/or files may.