Got sudo back, now can't install new packages

[AussieGuy]

After booting into my 12.04 system with a live CD and fiddlin' about, I've managed to add myself back to the sudo group.

But I get errors when using apt-get. Here's an example:

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>> sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev

<... a whole lotta stuff ...>

Errors were encountered while processing:
texlive-binaries
<... and other texlive packages ...>

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Clearly something, sometime, went wrong with my texlive installation and it's hanging about causing strife whenever I attempt to install another package. What are the best ways of getting round this?

Thanks,
-A.

[funicorn]

The given example fails to tell the error is from apt-get or texlive.

You need to give other examples.

[drmrgd]

Yes, please post the entire output from the command. The actual error description is likely to be in the text that you omitted from your post.