dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):

Same problem on upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS.

As inspired by the comments #9 and #10 I worked around with

    sudo apt-get remove --purge tex-common texlive-*
    sudo rm /etc/texmf/
    sudo apt-get install tex-common
    sudo apt-get install texlive-base
    sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended

Run without any errors.

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To do the LTS upgrade if you know about this before, this is enough:

sudo apt-get purge tex-common
sudo -E do-release-upgrade -d
sudo -E apt-get -y install tex-common texlive-base texlive-latex-recommended

(last packages added back as you need)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tex-common/+bug/1236951