dpkg error when using apt-get install

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Published on 2014-08-25T10:30:21Z Indexed on 2014/08/25 10:33 UTC
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I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04 and every time I use apt-get install for any package it ends with a bunch of errors about processing some of my latex packages. Including a snippet below:

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail.  Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lmodern:
lmodern depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.

Reproduced by using sudo dpkg --configure -a and a total list of packages with this error is included here:

Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
texlive-publishers
tex-gyre
texlive-latex-extra-doc
texlive-fonts-extra-doc
texlive-lang-english
texlive-luatex
texlive-generic-recommended
texlive-pstricks-doc
texlive-fonts-recommended
latex2html
latex-xcolor
texlive-pictures
texlive-fonts-extra
texlive-pictures-doc
asymptote
texlive-bibtex-extra
texlive-latex-recommended-doc
texlive-latex-recommended
doxygen-latex
texlive-pstricks
tipa
texlive-latex-base
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
latex-beamer
texlive-font-utils
texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra
texlive-extra-utils
texlive
texlive-publishers-doc
lmodern

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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