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I followed the instructions of the accepted answer of
https://askubuntu.com/questions/485514/how-to-properly-install-and-use-texlive-with-package-manager-in-14-04

but when I try to install any new package, I get 

(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
Unknown directive ...containerchecksum c59200574a316416a23695c258edf3a32531fbda43ccdc09360ee105c3f07f9fb77df17c4ba4c2ea4f3a5ea6667e064b51e3d8c2fe6c984ba3e71b4e32716955... , please fix it! at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 210, <$retfh> line 5579.

This is starting to be very frustrating.
Can somebody kindly guide me? Thank you

UPDATE

I'm trying to install manually following

How can I manually install a LaTeX package (Debian/Ubuntu Linux)?

so I downloaded the package from CTNA (aastex.zip, which btw is alread contained in Tex Live, according to CTAN repo) unpacked it and moved the content to /usr/share/tex-common

I then tried calling latex with either of the (seemingly relevant) files: aastex6.cls and aasjournal.bst, but in both cases I get 

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
! I can't write on file `aastex6.log'.
(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit; default file extension is `.log')
Please type another transcript file name:

My first guess is that I should not do this last call. If so, what should I do?

Then, one thing that strikes me is the TeX Live 2013/Debian, but this is latex which resulted on my machine from the installation procedure linked in the 'how to install the "vanilla" TexLive' (http://tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html)

Can somebody see through this? Thank you again

andrea
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  • You are using a TeX Live before 2016. The official TeX Live repository currently does only support TeX Live 2016. You cannot use tlmgr of TeX Live before 2016 with a current repository. You may install either Vanilla TeX Live 2016 or TeX Live 2017 prerelease parallel to your outdated TeX Live. See also scottkosty's answer to "Installing TeXlive on Ubuntu, revisited". – Schweinebacke Apr 25 '17 at 15:21
  • Maybe also interesting: How to install “vanilla” TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu? – Schweinebacke Apr 25 '17 at 15:29
  • I looked at the link and I discovered I already did it a while ago (back then to convert jupyter notebooks into latex). Important info I forgot to mention: I'm using Kile on Ubuntu 14. I will just figure out how to install the package manually and end of the story – andrea Apr 25 '17 at 15:34
  • You are not using Vanilla TeX Live but TeX Live from debian linux. Maybe you missed setting PATH so still the TeX binaries from the installed debian packages are used. For correct installation of Vanilla TeX Live see the link in my second comment. – Schweinebacke Apr 25 '17 at 16:46
  • Calling LaTeX for a file with extension .cls or .bst is mostly wrong. Is /usr/share/tex-common a valid local TDS tree on your system? You can test this, e.g., using kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL. – Schweinebacke Apr 25 '17 at 16:48
  • running this command returns /usr/local/share/texmf. In this folder there's also the ls-R (which showed up in https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/38978/how-can-i-manually-install-a-latex-package-debian-ubuntu-linux). I guess I should copy the sty file in one of the subfolders in this directory, find its location in the ls-R file and add a line with the name of the new package. Right? Is there a specific subfoder or I can choose any one?

    I will also try to install the Vanilla Tex Live

     – andrea Apr 26 '17 at 07:58
  • ls-R should be updated using texhash (see also kpathsea.pdf). For more information about how to place a file in a TDS tree read tds.pdf. – Schweinebacke Apr 26 '17 at 08:07
  • I installed TexLive following the indications at the page you linked. I got the following error at the end, when running sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_2016-2_all.deb I got `dpkg: regarding texlive-local_2016-2_all.deb containing texlive-local: texlive-base conflicts with texlive-common texlive-local provides texlive-common and is to be installed.

    dpkg: error processing archive texlive-local_2016-2_all.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing texlive-local Errors were encountered while processing: texlive-local_2016-2_all.deb` Any idea how to solve

     – andrea Apr 26 '17 at 09:46
  • I've linked different pages. Nevertheless, I you create a dummy package you should deinstall the already installed texlive-* packages of your linux distributions before. – Schweinebacke Apr 26 '17 at 09:50
  • I've installed the vanilla texlive from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/171560/9057. if I do which tlmgr I get /opt/texbin/tlmg and when I do sudo tlmgr install asstex (with the sudo necessary because I got You don't have permission to...), I get again then same error: (running on Debian, switching to user mode!) Unknown directive ...containerchecksum c59200574a316416a23695c258edf3a32531fbda43ccdc09360ee105c3f07f9fb77df17c4ba4c2ea4f3a5ea6667e064b51e3d8c2fe6c984ba3e71b4e32716955... , please fix it! at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 210, <$retfh> line 5579. Clues? – andrea Apr 27 '17 at 09:35

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