ppa-purge failed due to aptitude not being installed

[Ryan Grange]

Attempted to revert to distro version of LibreOffice using ppa-purge. Ppa-purge died in mid-purge when it couldn't locate aptitude. Aptitude is only a suggested package for ppa-purge. It may need to be promoted to dependency.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libreoffice-gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-34.53-generic 4.4.15
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 28 12:44:45 2016
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/liblosessioninstalllo.so', which is also in package libreoffice-gtk2 1:5.2.0~rc4-0ubuntu1~xenial2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-08 (385 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
 apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1
SourcePackage: libreoffice
Title: package libreoffice-gnome (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/liblosessioninstalllo.so', which is also in package libreoffice-gtk2 1:5.2.0~rc4-0ubuntu1~xenial2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-21 (68 days ago)

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Please track this for ppa-purge only. Nothing for LibreOffice to fix here.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

Also could be a bug in apt. (Has that been reported against apt?) Why aptitude would be used otherwise..

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

What PPA you have the LibbreOffice from?

[Ryan Grange (ryantg)]

ppa:libreoffice/ppa aka LibreOffice-Fresh

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Jarno Suni <email address hidden>
wrote:

> What PPA you have the LibbreOffice from?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1617814
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> Title:
> ppa-purge failed due to aptitude not being installed
>
> Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in ppa-purge package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Attempted to revert to distro version of LibreOffice using ppa-purge.
> Ppa-purge died in mid-purge when it couldn't locate aptitude.
> Aptitude is only a suggested package for ppa-purge. It may need to be
> promoted to dependency.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
> Package: libreoffice-gnome (not installed)
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-34.53-generic 4.4.15
> Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
> ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Sun Aug 28 12:44:45 2016
> ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/liblosessioninstalllo.so',
> which is also in package libreoffice-gtk2 1:5.2.0~rc4-0ubuntu1~xenial2
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-08 (385 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
> (20150218.1)
> RelatedPackageVersions:
> dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
> apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1
> SourcePackage: libreoffice
> Title: package libreoffice-gnome (not installed) failed to
> install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/liblosessioninstalllo.so',
> which is also in package libreoffice-gtk2 1:5.2.0~rc4-0ubuntu1~xenial2
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-21 (68 days ago)
>
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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