Comment 9 for bug 1241514

It looks like this may be an error with tex-common:

Processing triggers for tex-common ...^M
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.^M
Running mtxrun --generate. This may take some time... done.^M
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... ^M
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in^M
/tmp/updmap.eHVXzHix^M
Please include this file if you report a bug.^M
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Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d^M
causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension^M
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory^M
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dpkg: error processing tex-common (--remove):^M
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1^M
Errors were encountered while processing:^M
 tex-common^M