Were you doing a binary install or a source install? If it was binary,
then I believe that what happened is that apt-get selected system-tetex
for you--I've had similar things happen.
If, on the other hand, you were doing a source install, then you should
have been prompted to pick
This was a source install in which I was not prompted to choose between
system-tetx or tetex package. Instead the system as noted in my
original message containing the terminal output, chose an appropriate
file to meet the dependency and then an error with dpkg occured. I have
included
