The error occured short (1-2 Min.) after booting, I did not run libreoffice at all.

[jowi]

The error occured short (1-2 Min.) after booting, I did not run libreoffice at all.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libreoffice-common (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-26.42-generic 3.5.7.6
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 25 18:37:20 2013
DuplicateSignature:
 Unpacking replacement libreoffice-common ...
 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~quantal2_all.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/officehelper.py', which is also in package libreoffice-emailmerge 1:4.0.1~rc2-0ubuntu1~quantal1~ppa1
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/officehelper.py', which is also in package libreoffice-emailmerge 1:4.0.1~rc2-0ubuntu1~quantal1~ppa1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-20 (370 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libreoffice
Title: package libreoffice-common (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/officehelper.py', which is also in package libreoffice-emailmerge 1:4.0.1~rc2-0ubuntu1~quantal1~ppa1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-12-16 (100 days ago)

[EricW (eric-vents-sauvages)]

This is a small packaging problem. To get rid of the error you can safely remove libreoffice-emailmerge with dpkg (it is a transitional package, which means that it contains nothing, as it is now integrated in libreoffice-common package).

After this, reinstall libreoffice-common with synaptic or apt-get, everything should run fine.

[Josh2112 (josh2112)]

EricW's solution worked for me. Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libreoffice - 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1

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libreoffice (1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * new upstream release
  * merge from Debian
  * add junit subsequentcheck as autopkgtest
  * revert ppa specialcasing removal -- the ppa builders are still too small
  * limit jobs for subsequent checks to 1 and re-enable heisenbugged tests
  * make -common break old -emailmerge (LP: #1160533)
  * make -emailmerge B/R consistent
  * we have libservlet-3.0 already
  * revert temp. python3-uno->python3.3-move that we don't need, while trying to
    keep the diff low
  * some lintian tweaks
  * remove self-conflicts
  * build against system liblangtag (requested by Benjamin Drung)

libreoffice (1:4.0.2~rc2-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * new upstream release candidate
    - keeps migrating more user extensions after one failed (closes: #703486)

  [ Rene Engelhard ]
  * src/17410483b5b5f267aa18b7e00b65e6e0-hsqldb_1_8_0.zip: remove
    lib/servlet.jar..
  * debian/patches/fix-internal-hsqldb-build.diff: ... and fix internal
    hsqldb build to use /usr/share/java/servlet-api-2.5.jar

  * merge from Ubuntu:
    - reverting l10n conflicts as they create an unfortunate mess in image and
      installer creation (related: lp#957589)
  * debian/rules, debian/control.in:
    - temporarily rename python3-uno to python3.3-uno to be able to upload
      this to unstable without waiting for a python3-defaults transition.
  * debian/control.in:
    - mention that python-uno is for old python2 compatibility and move to
      oldlibs
    - make -base recommend -writer (because forms in base need it), thanks#
      Lionel Elie Mamane
    - make -common break all pre-3.6 extensions (closes: #686666)
    - revert make -help-en-us break "the others" to work around 682838
      as it breaks the installer (reopens: #682838)
  * debian/control.libreloho.in:
    - librelogo needs -writer (see
      http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2013-March/048222.html)

  [ Bjoern Michaelsen ]
  * squash and cherry-pick junit autopkgtests from Ubuntu

libreoffice (1:4.0.2~rc1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * new upstream release candidate

  * merge from Ubuntu:
    - add transitional for -presenter-console
    - silent some lintian noise for unversioned breaks:
      + promote Breaks to Conflicts against -binfilter as it will never return
      + remove Breaks against -style-industrial which is long gone
      + promote Breaks to Conflicts from langpacks against en-US
    - remove all traces of -so52
  * add patches from Benjamin Drung:
    - Apply fonts package renames from ttf-foo to fonts-foo.
    - Update machine-readable copyright Format to 1.0
    - Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes needed).
  * debian/control.help.in:
    - remove obsolete ${java-common-depends} Recommends
  * debian/control*.in, debian/rules:
    - stop building extra -emailmerge as stuff in -common (wizards) now
      need pyuno anyway.
 -- Bjoern Michaelsen <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:48:23 +0200