unopkg failed due to an openoffice.org bug

[Miguel Zúñiga González]

Binary package hint: writer2latex

After updating oppenoffice.org, this package returns error 1.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: powerpc
Date: Sat Apr 19 14:50:22 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: el subproceso post-installation script devolvió el código de salida de error 1
Package: openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-6
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: writer2latex
Title: package openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-6 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-powerpc ppc

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I can confirm this behavior on amd64 as well. The full error is:

Setting up openoffice.org-writer2latex (0.5-6) ...
Adding extension /usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/writer2latex.uno.pkg...
unopkg failed.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-writer2latex (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

This should be fixed for 8.04.1.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This can't easily be fixed due to unopkg being a big mess, there are open bugs in upstream OOo that unopkg needs to be completely rewritten since it is so bad.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

I can confirm it on PowerPC. Would it be possible to remove writer2latex from the openoffice.org meta package as a work-around until the unopkg problem is fixed?

[John Moore (jcwmoore)]

Confirm on PowerPC, same error as above.

[Ed Hewitt (edhewitt-deactivatedaccount)]

I can comfirm that this bug also effects i386 version of Ubuntu. I'm using Xubuntu 8.04, with 2.6.24-17 kernal