Install texlive 2017 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

To install the latest and greatest TeXLive 2017, run the following code in your terminal:

curl -sL http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz | tar zxf - && mv install-tl-20* install-tl
cd install-tl
echo "selected_scheme scheme-full" > profile \
  && ./install-tl -repository http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet -profile profile
export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH

And when you want to update the packages when you want, you can issue this command: tlmgr update --all.

(full install instructions may be found on the tug website)

If you don't want to install anything, here is the docker image with TeXLive 2017 with Pandoc- a versatile universal document converter.

Enjoy!!

I ran into this issue yesterday and solved it iterative ... it took quite some time.

The error message also points to the downloaded .deb-package. You can force installation with: dpkg -i --force all /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-...york0_all.deb

This will install the package with a lot of warnings, but you can proceed with sudo apt install -f (I actually used dist-upgrade) until the next crash. I had to repeat this procedure for six packages.

When installation succeeded and no more packages break the process with the mentioned error, I once restarted sudo apt dist-upgrade to complete the installation.

I went this way, because apt purge texlive-full was not possible due its corrupt state.