In case it might help others, here is what I did to solve my problem:
1- Uninstalling and re-installing did not work for me
2- Sudo apt-get -f install tex-common etc. did not work either. The problem
persisted.
3- Installing first texlive-common and then the other packages also did not
solve it.
4- My solution: The report file (something like updmap.585adb3z in the /tmp
folder) stated that the problem was with a map file which was not installed
correctly. So I decided to rename the updmap config file located in
/etc/texmf/updmap.d/ (the file was 10local.cfg in my case) and then install
texlive again.
I was finally able to re-install texlive without any problems. I think
if you have a similar problem, you should check the error report file to
see if you can do anything. This was not a bug in my case, just some
font I was not able to install correctly. %(\footnote{Installing fonts
in latex is so awkward. This must be why xelatex makes great sense.})
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package texlive-base 2007-13 failed to install/upgrade: updmap-sys failed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228334
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