Ubuntu
libreoffice package

Cannot install LibreOffice 3.3.2 with OOo 3.3

Bug #782710 reported by JayBofMA on 2011-05-14

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #799535: package libreoffice-common (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: tentata sovrascrittura di "/usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml" presente anche nel pacchetto openoffice.org-debian-menus 3.3-9556. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libreoffice (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Björn Michaelsen

Bug Description

Binary package hint: libreoffice

error trying to overwrite '/usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml', which is also in package openoffice.org-debian-menus

The two applications should not share a file which, if present, prevents their installation. This also smacks of licens infringement, unless this is an agreement between OOo and LibreOffice.org.

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Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) wrote on 2011-05-15:

Closing as invalid in libreoffice as there is no openoffice.org-debian-menus package in any official ubuntu repository.

Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid
assignee:	nobody → Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)

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JayBofMA (jayburrill) wrote on 2011-05-15:

Well it is nice to hear that no such package exists. But give it a whirl. Try installing OOo 3.3 with LibreOffice 3.3.2 in place, and you will see an error similar to this. Or perform the reverse, install LibreOffice with OOo installed. A nearly identical error is emitted. Granted I only went through this because of the issues LibreOffice has with printing multi-tabbed Calc sheets as well as the hanging that occurs when pasting large numbers of rows to a sheet. But I failed to recall that OOo cannot Save-As Microsoft Office 2003/2007 format, so I had to revert my changes and cleanly reinstall LibreOffice, only to see a message like that noted above. I just thought you should know.

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JayBofMA (jayburrill) wrote on 2011-05-15:

I may have pasted the error from the OOo installation. But the message was similar for the LibreOffice installation; both noted the failure to overwrite openoffice.org.xml. I see now your confusion with interpreting the point of my bug report. I am sorry I was unclear. But in both scenarios I just described above, an error will be logged for LibreOffice installation not being able to overwrite the openoffice.org.xml used by OOo, or OOo installation not being able to overwrite the openoffice.org.xml used by LibreOffice.