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I am writing an academic paper (ACM style 'acmart') that also includes some program code that is highlighted with a special style.

I am running Ubuntu 16.10 and I have install textlive via apt:
sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra texlive-full

My co-authors are fine with using an older version of Ubuntu for the same latex file. But I get the following error?

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./paper17.tex
LaTeX2e <2016/03/31> patch level 3
Babel <3.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 83 language(s) loaded.
(./acmart.cls
Document Class: acmart 2017/05/14 v1.39 Typesetting articles for Association of
 Computing Machinery
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xstring/xstring.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amscls/amsart.cls
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For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
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Package hyperref Message: Driver (autodetected): hpdftex.

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Special comment 'acks' Excluding comment 'screenonly'
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(./macros.tex (./latex/python.sty

LaTeX Warning: You have requested package `latex/python',
               but the package provides `python'.

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(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tipa/t3enc.def
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<argument> \mdseries@sf 

l.357 {\sffamily
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/T1LinuxBiolinumT-TLF.fd)

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T1/LinuxBiolinumT-TLF//n' undefined
(Font)              using `T1/LinuxBiolinumT-TLF/m/n' instead on input line 357
.

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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/upsy.fd))
Excluding 'CCSXML' comment.)
(./latex/examples/GUIgeneric/experiment7GUIDefinitions.tex)
(./latex/examples/GUIgeneric/experiment8GUIstatedepExample.tex) (./paper17.aux)
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/OT1LinuxLibertineT-TLF.fd)<<
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ABD: EveryShipout initializing macros
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/gettitlestring.sty))
(./paper17.out) (./paper17.out)
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*geometry* detected driver: pdftex
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(./introduction.tex

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(./illustrationLibrary.tex (./introductoryExample.tex
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)) (./paper17.bbl

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Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active


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[2.2] (./paper17.aux)

LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted.

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Output written on 

I think the main error is the undefined control sequence, possibly because of a package and/or font problem:

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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ifmtarg/ifmtarg.sty))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polytable/polytable.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lazylist/lazylist.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/array.sty))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/ucs.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/data/uni-global.def))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tipa/tipa.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tipa/t3enc.def
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \mdseries@sf 

l.357 {\sffamily
                \xdef\@sffamilyname{\f@family}}
? 
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/T1LinuxBiolinumT-TLF.fd)

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T1/LinuxBiolinumT-TLF//n' undefined
(Font)              using `T1/LinuxBiolinumT-TLF/m/n' instead on input line 357
.

) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)))

Any pointers?

Best Answer

@Boris and @cfr got the solution. The libertine package is the problem.

The patch for "acmart.cls" is this:

diff --git a/acmart.cls b/acmart.cls
index f6c56ed..d822262 100644
--- a/acmart.cls
+++ b/acmart.cls
@@ -615,9 +615,9 @@ Computing Machinery]
     have newtxmath package installed.  Please upgrade your
     TeX}\@ACM@newfontsfalse}
 \if@ACM@newfonts
-\RequirePackage[tt=false, type1=true]{libertine}
+%\RequirePackage[tt=false, type1=true]{libertine}
 \RequirePackage[varqu]{zi4}
-\RequirePackage[libertine]{newtxmath}
+%\RequirePackage[libertine]{newtxmath}
 \RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}
 \fi
 \if@ACM@sigchiamode

However, you might get a different font. In this case the co-authors must submit their PDF version.