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I am trying to fix a MiKTeX installation on Ubuntu 18.04, or at least I would like to remove it and all its packages in order to install TexLive.

I tried to install it a couple of weeks ago, following https://miktex.org/howto/install-miktex-unx, and i got 

N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'universe/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://miktex.org/download/ubuntu bionic InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'

I didn't have much time to fix the problem, so I didn't do anything. Gong back to it this morning, I tried this solution on the last step:

repository 'http://miktex.org/download/ubuntu xenial InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'

Then I run: 

 rob@rob-Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt install miktex
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree       
 Reading state information... Done
 Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
 requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
 distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
 or been moved out of Incoming.
 The following information may help to resolve the situation:

 The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 miktex : Depends: libhunspell-1.3-0 (>= 1.3.3) but it is not installable
          Depends: libicu55 (>= 55.1-1~) but it is not installable
          Depends: libmpfr4 (>= 3.1.3) but it is not installable
          Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not installable
 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

And, at the end 

 rob@rob-Ubuntu:~$ sudo aptitude install libhunspell-1.3-0
 No candidate version found for libhunspell-1.3-0
 Unable to apply some actions, aborting

Nothing seems to work.

Any suggestions?

I would like 1- to install Miktex correctly OR 2- cancel anything related to it, and install TexLive.

dlin
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dpkg -l miktex will return if MiKTeX is installed. To wipe MiKTeX : MiKTeX Console -> Cleanup -> Reset the TeX installation, then

sudo apt-get remove miktex
sudo apt autoremove

To install TeXLive on 18.04, you can install one of

  1. texlive-base
  2. texlive-latex-recommended
  3. texlive
  4. texlive-latex-extra
  5. texlive-full

The first package texlive-base will install just the basics of LaTeX. texlive or texlive-latex-extra will suit the majority of users. Go with texlive-full if you have plenty of space and don't mind nonessential packages.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
dlin
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  • That's what I got trying 'rob@rob-Ubuntu:~$ MiKTeX Console MiKTeX: command not found' – rob Apr 29 '20 at 14:14
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    At which step did you get this? – dlin Apr 29 '20 at 14:17
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    Trying to follow your comment! I just typed "MiKTex Console" to open it, and it gave this to me. (I am not really sure I actually managed to install MiKTeX given the numerous error messages I got during the installaton process , those that I copied in my question. So maybe it actually never installed ? ) – rob Apr 29 '20 at 14:29
  • There are no packages apparently! I just thought something actually got installed since I found a couple of miktex source files in ' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ' and ' /var/lib/apt/lists/miktex.org_download_ubuntu_dists_xenial_InRelease' – rob Apr 29 '20 at 14:44
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    dpkg -l miktex will return if miktex is installed. – dlin Apr 29 '20 at 14:44
  • Did you proceed installing texlive? – dlin Apr 29 '20 at 14:46
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    Yes, I installed texlive-publisher and it is working fine! Thanks – rob Apr 30 '20 at 11:52