OK depois de tentar mais algumas coisas por um tempo eu instalei o aptitude que foi capaz de propor uma solução (depois de tentar o primeiro e falhar) que funcionou, fazendo o downgrade de libpathsea6
. Detalhes:
oz@oz-linux:~$ sudo aptitude install texlive-latex-base
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fonts-lmodern{a} libpotrace0{a} libptexenc1{a} libsynctex1{a} libtexlua52{a} libtexluajit2{a} libzzip-0-13{a} lmodern{a}
texlive-base{a} texlive-binaries{ab} texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc{a}
0 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 83.4 MB of archives. After unpacking 188 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
texlive-binaries : Depends: libkpathsea6 (< 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-1.1~) but 2017.20170613.44585-1~16.04.york0 is installed
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) texlive-base [Not Installed]
2) texlive-binaries [Not Installed]
3) texlive-latex-base [Not Installed]
4) texlive-latex-base-doc [Not Installed]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Downgrade the following packages:
1) libkpathsea6 [2017.20170613.44585-1~16.04.york0 (now) -> 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-1 (zesty)]