Bug#603132: libreoffice-math trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man1/oomath.1.gz from oo.o math
Package: libreoffice-math
Version: Uninstallable package - "trying to over write ..." error
Severity: normal
Errr.... I thought this was specific to libreoffice-math, but noticed
that this is common to other packages in the libreoffice suite.
The issue will render libreoffice uninstallable on systems on which
openoffice.org is installed.
I had initially upgraded several packages, and installed lbreoffice.org
in the process using "aptitude -t experimental" gui. Had noticed that
some openoffice.org packages were being removed (did not pay much attention
since I have not been using OO.o for some time now - was using the packages
from The Documentation Foundation site).
Since libreoffice was not properly installed, I tried "aptitude -f install",
and found the following in the output.
<start>
Selecting previously deselected package libreoffice-core.
Unpacking libreoffice-core (from .../libreoffice-core_1%3a3.3.0~beta2-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libreoffice-base-core.
Unpacking libreoffice-base-core (from .../libreoffice-base-core_1%3a3.3.0~beta2-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking libreoffice-math (from .../libreoffice-math_1%3a3.3.0~beta2-2_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-math_1%3a3.3.0~beta2-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/oomath.1.gz', which is also in package openoffice.org-math 1:3.2.1-7
configured to not write apport reports
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Unpacking libreoffice-writer (from .../libreoffice-writer_1%3a3.3.0~beta2-2_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-writer_1%3a3.3.0~beta2-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/oowriter.1.gz', which is also in package openoffice.org-writer 1:3.2.1-7
configured to not write apport reports
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a3.3.0~beta2-2_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-math_1%3a3.3.0~beta2-2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-writer_1%3a3.3.0~beta2-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-core:
libreoffice-core depends on libreoffice-common (>> 1:3.3.0~beta2); however:
Package libreoffice-common is not installed.
dpkg: error processing libreoffice-core (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-base-core:
libreoffice-base-core depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:3.3.0~beta2-2); however:
Package libreoffice-core is not <snip>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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