package libreoffice-common (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: tentative de remplacement de « /usr/bin/soffice », qui appartient aussi au paquet openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.2-9782

[Mly Mohamed Sarsari]

i'm trying to install the libreoffice in xubuntu from Terminal when the bug shows up

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: libreoffice-common (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-43.49~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt10
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 12 12:03:47 2016
DuplicateSignature: package:libreoffice-common:(not installed):tentative de remplacement de « /usr/bin/soffice », qui appartient aussi au paquet openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.2-9782
ErrorMessage: tentative de remplacement de « /usr/bin/soffice », qui appartient aussi au paquet openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.2-9782
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-12 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.5
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.10
SourcePackage: libreoffice
Title: package libreoffice-common (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: tentative de remplacement de « /usr/bin/soffice », qui appartient aussi au paquet openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.2-9782
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

"openoffice-debian-menus" <- seems you had installed conflicting unsupported third party software. If you properly remove Openoffice there shouldnt be an issue.