I was trying to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04 and got a funny message. I am currently stuck between versions, can't go forward or back. All I have are terminal command functions, no GUI. These are my results (typed longhand) after running:
$ sudo apt-get -f install 87 upgraded, 29 newly installed, 7 to remove, and 1732 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed need to get 0B/404 MB of archives After this operation, 257 MB of additional disk space will be used Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages... (Reading database... 423378 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack... /texlive-latex-base-doc_2015.20160320-1_all.deb unpacking texlive-latex-base-doc (2015.20160320-1) over (2013.20140215-1)... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-latex-base-doc_2015.20160320-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to Trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/url/url.tx.gz, which is also in package texlive-latex-recommended-doc 2013.20140215-1 dpkg-deb: error subprocess paste was killed by signal (broken pipe) Warning: Old configuration style found in /etc/texmf/updmap.d Warning: for now these files have been included Warning: but expect inconsistencies Warning: these packages should be rebuilt with tex-common Warning: please see /usr/share/doc/tex-common/NEWS.Debian.gz Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/101modern.cfg Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-base.cfg Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/texlive-latex-base.cfg Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/texlive-latex-extra.cfg Warning: found file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/texlive-pictures.cfg Errors were encountered while processing /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-latex-base-doc_2015.20160320-1_all.deb E: Subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 1 Answer
This will make you get rid off the apt-get error
sudo dpkg --force-all --purge texlive-latex-base-doc 
