Right, but look back at the issue. First thing I tried was to attempt apt-get
remove texlive*.
For example:
$ sudo apt-get remove -f feynmf prosper m-tx pgf pmx musixtex tipa texlive*
*latex*
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package 'texlive-base-recommended' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-base-bin-doc' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-texinfo' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-common' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-arab' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-bg' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-fi' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-nl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-si' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-tr' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-armenian' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-croatian' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-danish' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-dutch' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-finnish' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-hungarian' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-latvian' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-lithuanian' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-norwegian' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-swedish' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-ar' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-cs+sk' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-de' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-en' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-es' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-fr' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-it' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-ja' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-ko' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-mn' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-pl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-pt' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-rs' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-ru' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-th' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-uk' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-vi' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-zh' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-hebrew' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-mongolian' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-tibetan' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-vietnamese' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'biblatex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'cslatex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'jlatex209-bin' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-xcjk' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libjlatexmath' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'platex-base' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-sanskrit' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'thailatex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex.service' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'c++-annotations-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'cjk-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'csv2latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'cweb-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'dblatex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'fcitx-table-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'geany-plugin-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'gedit-latex-plugin' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'gnuhtml2latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'ibus-table-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'jlatex209-base' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'klatexformula' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-all' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-chinese' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bkai00mp' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gbsn00lp' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-common' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-japanese' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-korean' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-cjk-thai' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-coffee-stains' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-fonts-sipa-arundina' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-fonts-thai-tlwg' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-make' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex-mk' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex209-base' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex209-bin' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex209-src' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex2html' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex2rtf' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latex2rtf-doc' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latexdiff' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latexdraw' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latexila' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latexila-data' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latexmk' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'latexml' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libjlatexmath-fop-java' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libjlatexmath-java' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libjlatexmath-java-doc' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libklatexformula3' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libklatexformula3-dev' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'liblatex-decode-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'liblatex-driver-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'liblatex-encode-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'liblatex-table-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'liblatex-tom-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libreoffice-writer2latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libtemplate-plugin-latex-perl' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libwriter2latex-java' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'libwriter2latex-java-doc' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linuxdoc-tools-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'mediawiki2latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'mediawiki2latexguipyqt' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'pidgin-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'rcs-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-bibtex-extra' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-binaries' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-extra-utils' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-font-utils' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-fonts-extra' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-formats-extra' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-games' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-generic-extra' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-htmlxml' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-humanities' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-african' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-all' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-arabic' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-chinese' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-cjk' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-cyrillic' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-czechslovak' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-english' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-european' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-french' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-german' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-greek' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-indic' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-italian' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-japanese' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-korean' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-other' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-polish' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-portuguese' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-lang-spanish' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-math-extra' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'tomboy-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'vim-latexsuite' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'writer2latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'writer2latex-manual' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'doxygen-latex' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-fonts-recommended' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-full' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-generic-recommended' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-latex-base' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'texlive-doc-base' is not installed, so not removed
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
trisquel-desktop-common : Depends: fonts-droid-fallback but it is not going
to be installed
Depends: irqbalance but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: fonts-roboto but it is not going to be
installed
Recommends: ibus-clutter but it is not going to be
installed
Recommends: ibus-doc but it is not going to be
installed
Recommends: ibus-qt4 but it is not going to be
installed
Recommends: ibus-table-array30 but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-cangjie but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-cangjie-big but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-cangjie3 but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-cangjie5 but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-cantonese but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-cantonhk but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-cns11643 but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-compose but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-easy but it is not going to
be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-easy-big but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-emoji but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-erbi but it is not going to
be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-erbi-qs but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-ipa-x-sampa but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-jyutping but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-latex but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-quick but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-quick-classic but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-quick3 but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-quick5 but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-rustrad but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-scj6 but it is not going to
be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-stroke5 but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-thai but it is not going to
be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-translit but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-translit-ua but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-viqr but it is not going to
be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-wu but it is not going to
be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-wubi but it is not going to
be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-yawerty but it is not going
to be installed
Recommends: ibus-table-yong but it is not going to
be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify
a solution).
