below is a regenerated error message

fethi@jimmy:~/system/soft/vbox$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up tex-common (2.09) ...
/usr/sbin/update-language-def: line 779: printf: missing unicode digit for \u
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... 
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.FI4V6Tzq
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail.  Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of prosper:
 prosper depends on tex-common (>= 1.10); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing prosper (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-luatex:
 texlive-luatex depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-luatex (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-generic-recommended:
 texlive-generic-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-generic-recommended (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-fonts-recommended:
 texlive-fonts-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-fonts-recommended (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-recommended:
 texlive-latex-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-recommended (--configure):
dpkg: error processing tipa (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-base:
 texlive-latex-base depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-base (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-beamer:
 latex-beamer depends on texlive-latex-base; however:
  Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-beamer (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-font-utils:
 texlive-font-utils depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-font-utils (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-extra-utils:
 texlive-extra-utils depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-extra-utils (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive:
 texlive depends on texlive-fonts-recommended (>= 2009-1); however:
  Package texlive-fonts-recommended is not configured yet.
 texlive depends on texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2009-1); however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
 texlive depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2009-1); however:
  Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-xcolor:
 latex-xcolor depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-xcolor (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pgf:
 pgf depends on latex-xcolor (>= 2.00-1); however:
  Package latex-xcolor is not configured yet.
 pgf depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing pgf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common
 prosper
 texlive-luatex
 texlive-generic-recommended
 texlive-fonts-recommended
 texlive-latex-recommended
 texlive-pstricks
 tipa
 texlive-latex-base
 latex-beamer
 texlive-font-utils
 texlive-extra-utils
 texlive
 latex-xcolor
 pgf