dpkg officehelper.py error

[JohnShep]

system update on 25/3/2013 Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/libreoffice/share/': Directory not empty
rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/libreoffice/program/': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/libreoffice': Directory not empty
rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/libreoffice': Directory not empty

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Josh2112 (josh2112)]

This fix posted by EricW in bug #1160533 fixed the problem for me:

"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."