With the current status where the following are available:
texlive-base 2026.20260527-1
texlive-bin 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4
texlive-extra 2026.20260527-1
the following is still fine:
qaa:~> aptitude install -s texlive-binaries
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dvidvi{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libkpathsea6 libptexenc1 libsynctex-dev libsynctex2 libtexlua53-5
texlive-binaries
6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 771 not upgraded.
but this is still buggy:
qaa:~> aptitude install -s texlive-full
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dvidvi{u} fonts-hosny-amiri{u} texlive-games{u} texlive-humanities{u}
texlive-lang-arabic{u}
texlive-lang-cyrillic{u} texlive-lang-czechslovak{u} texlive-lang-english{u}
texlive-lang-european{u}
texlive-lang-french{u} texlive-lang-german{u} texlive-lang-italian{u}
texlive-lang-polish{u}
texlive-lang-portuguese{u} texlive-lang-spanish{u} texlive-music{u}
texlive-publishers{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
texlive-fonts-extra{b} texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-fonts-extra-links
texlive-fonts-recommended{b}
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-full{b} texlive-humanities-doc
texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra-doc{b} texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-metapost-doc
texlive-pictures-doc
texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-publishers-doc texlive-science-doc
15 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 747 not upgraded.
Need to get 3231 MB of archives. After unpacking 740 MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
texlive-latex-extra-doc : Breaks: texlive-xetex (< 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
texlive-full : Depends: texlive-base (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1 is
installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-bibtex-extra (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-binaries (>= 2026.20260303) but
2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-extra-utils (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-font-utils (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-formats-extra (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-games (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going
to be installed
Depends: texlive-humanities (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-arabic (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-chinese (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-cjk (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-cyrillic (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-czechslovak (>= 2026.20260328) but it is
not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-english (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-european (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-french (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-german (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-greek (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-italian (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-japanese (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-korean (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-other (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-lang-polish (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-portuguese (>= 2026.20260328) but it is
not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-spanish (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-latex-base (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-latex-extra (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-luatex (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1
is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-metapost (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-music (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not going
to be installed
Depends: texlive-pictures (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-plain-generic (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-pstricks (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-publishers (>= 2026.20260328) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: texlive-science (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1
is installed and it is kept back
Depends: texlive-xetex (>= 2026.20260328) but 2025.20260124-1
is installed and it is kept back
texlive-fonts-extra : Depends: texlive-base (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
texlive-fonts-recommended : Depends: texlive-base (>= 2026.20260328) but
2025.20260124-1 is installed and it is kept back
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) fonts-hosny-amiri [1.003-6 (now, testing, unstable)]
2) texlive-fonts-extra [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
3) texlive-fonts-recommended [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
4) texlive-full [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
5) texlive-games [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
6) texlive-humanities [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
7) texlive-lang-arabic [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
8) texlive-lang-cyrillic [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
9) texlive-lang-czechslovak [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
10) texlive-lang-english [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
11) texlive-lang-european [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
12) texlive-lang-french [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
13) texlive-lang-german [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
14) texlive-lang-italian [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
15) texlive-lang-polish [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
16) texlive-lang-portuguese [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
17) texlive-lang-spanish [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
18) texlive-latex-base-doc [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
19) texlive-latex-extra-doc [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
20) texlive-music [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
21) texlive-publishers [2025.20260124-1 (now)]
Upgrade the following packages:
22) libkpathsea6 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) ->
2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
23) libptexenc1 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) ->
2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
24) libsynctex-dev [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) ->
2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
25) libsynctex2 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) ->
2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
26) libtexlua53-5 [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) ->
2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
27) texlive-binaries [2025.20250727.75242+ds-5+b2 (now) ->
2026.20260303.78225+ds-4 (testing, unstable)]
Since aptitude proposes to upgrade texlive-binaries, this should
have the same effect as the following:
qaa:~> aptitude install -s texlive-full texlive-binaries
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dvidvi{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libkpathsea6 libptexenc1 libsynctex-dev libsynctex2 libtexlua53-5 texlive
texlive-base
texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-binaries texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils
texlive-fonts-extra
texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-fonts-extra-links texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
texlive-formats-extra texlive-full texlive-games texlive-humanities
texlive-humanities-doc
texlive-lang-arabic texlive-lang-chinese texlive-lang-cjk
texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-lang-czechslovak
texlive-lang-english texlive-lang-european texlive-lang-french
texlive-lang-german texlive-lang-greek
texlive-lang-italian texlive-lang-japanese texlive-lang-korean
texlive-lang-other texlive-lang-polish
texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-lang-spanish texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended-doc
texlive-luatex texlive-metapost texlive-metapost-doc texlive-music
texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc
texlive-plain-generic texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc
texlive-publishers texlive-publishers-doc
texlive-science texlive-science-doc texlive-xetex
58 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 719 not upgraded.
where there are no issues.
However, by just choosing aptitude's default suggestions, it should
now be possible to upgrade in 2 steps.
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