package libreoffice-gtk not installed failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/losessioninstall.uno.so , which is also in package libreoffice-core 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu4

[Erik-Jan Dokter]

I upgraded the packages via the terminal via sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get updgrade. I have added some PPA's myself in order to update LibreOffice to a more recent version. This time the 4 alfa was installed. After that the system reported broken packages.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libreoffice-gtk (not installed)
Uname: Linux 3.6.0-030600-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 30 08:02:34 2012
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/losessioninstall.uno.so', which is also in package libreoffice-core 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu4
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-04 (56 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libreoffice
Title: package libreoffice-gtk (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/losessioninstall.uno.so', which is also in package libreoffice-core 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu4
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-18 (42 days ago)

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

known issue, note that the prereleases PPA does explicitly not guarantee such things wont happen. Thus always uninstall LO completely before and after switching to another version.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Should be fixed now in the ppa, soon to be uploaded to raring.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

uploaded