Depends: openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us but it is not installed

[Ian Lawrence]

root@ian-laptop:/home/ian# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  language-support-writing-en: Depends: openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

root@ian-laptop:/home/ian# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  postgresql-doc-8.2 libnss3-dev blt libnspr4-dev tk8.4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
191 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/32.5kB of archives.
After this operation, 127kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 206500 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us (from .../openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us_2.3-5_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us_2.3-5_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/myspell/dicts/hyph_en_US.dic', which is also in package openoffice.org-hyphenation
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us_2.3-5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[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.