package openoffice.org-hyphenation None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-hyphenation.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/myspell/dicts/hyph_en_US.dic', which is also in package openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us

[Matti Lindell]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-hyphenation

Tried to install language-pack-en using aptitude.

The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  openoffice.org-hyphenation
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openoffice.org-hyphenation
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  language-support-en language-support-translations-en language-support-writing-en mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
  openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-style-human
  openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us openoffice.org-writer python-uno
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/384kB of archives. After unpacking 999kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 115691 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openoffice.org-hyphenation (from .../openoffice.org-hyphenation_0.2_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-hyphenation_0.2_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/myspell/dicts/hyph_en_US.dic', which is also in package openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-hyphenation_0.2_all.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 language-support-writing-en:
 language-support-writing-en depends on openoffice.org-hyphenation; however:
  Package openoffice.org-hyphenation is not installed.
dpkg: error processing language-support-writing-en (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-core:
 openoffice.org-core depends on openoffice.org-hyphenation; however:
  Package openoffice.org-hyphenation is not installed.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-core (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-filter-binfilter:
 openoffice.org-filter-binfilter depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:2.3.1-3ubuntu3); however:
  Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-filter-binfilter (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-common:
 openoffice.org-common depends on openoffice.org-core (>> 1:2.3.1); however:
  Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-common (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-writer:
 openoffice.org-writer depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:2.3.1-3ubuntu3); however:
  Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-writer (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-uno:
 python-uno depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:2.3.1-3ubuntu3); however:
  Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python-uno (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-help-en-us:
 openoffice.org-help-en-us depends on openoffice.org-writer; however:
  Package openoffice.org-writer is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-help-en-us (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-style-human:
 openoffice.org-style-human depends on openoffice.org-common (= 1:2.3.1-3ubuntu3); however:
  Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-style-human (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of language-support-translations-en:
 language-support-translations-en depends on openoffice.org-help-en-us; however:
  Package openoffice.org-help-en-us is not configured yet.
 language-support-translations-en depends on openoffice.org-l10n-en-us; however:
  Package openoffice.org-l10n-en-us is not installed.
  Package openoffice.org-common which provides openoffice.org-l10n-en-us is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing language-support-translations-en (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of language-support-en:
 language-support-en depends on language-support-translations-en; however:
  Package language-support-translations-en is not configured yet.
 language-support-en depends on language-support-writing-en; however:
  Package language-support-writing-en is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing language-support-en (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-help-en-gb:
 openoffice.org-help-en-gb depends on openoffice.org-writer; however:
  Package openoffice.org-writer is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-help-en-gb (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-l10n-en-za:
 openoffice.org-l10n-en-za depends on openoffice.org-common (>= 1:2.3.1) | language-support-en; however:
  Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet.
  Package language-support-en is not configured yet.
 openoffice.org-l10n-en-za depends on openoffice.org-common (<< 1:2.3.1.1) | language-support-en; however:
  Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet.
  Package language-support-en is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-l10n-en-za (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb:
 openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb depends on openoffice.org-common (>= 1:2.3.1) | language-support-en; however:
  Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet.
  Package language-support-en is not configured yet.
 openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb depends on openoffice.org-common (<< 1:2.3.1.1) | language-support-en; however:
  Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet.
  Package language-support-en is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au:
 openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au depends on openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0) | language-support-en; however:
  Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet.
  Package language-support-en is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb:
 mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb depends on firefox-2 | language-support-en; however:
  Package firefox-2 is not installed.
  Package language-support-en is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us:
 openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us depends on openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0) | language-support-en; however:
  Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet.
  Package language-support-en is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 language-support-writing-en
 openoffice.org-core
 openoffice.org-filter-binfilter
 openoffice.org-common
 openoffice.org-writer
 python-uno
 openoffice.org-help-en-us
 openoffice.org-style-human
 language-support-translations-en
 language-support-en
 openoffice.org-help-en-gb
 openoffice.org-l10n-en-za
 openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
 openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au
 mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb
 openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 16 15:44:02 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/myspell/dicts/hyph_en_US.dic', which is also in package openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-hyphenation None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-hyphenation.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: openoffice.org-hyphenation
Title: package openoffice.org-hyphenation None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-hyphenation.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/myspell/dicts/hyph_en_US.dic', which is also in package openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us
Uname: Linux sandbox 2.6.24-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 7 01:29:58 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Luca Carrogu (motoplux)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #192310 , so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.