Package: openoffice.org-l10n-en Version: 1.1.2dfsg1-2 Severity: important I tried to install openoffice.org the following way.... danuvius:~# apt-get install openoffice.org Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en Suggested packages: myspell-dictionary openoffice.org-help ooqstart-gnome oooqs-kde cupsys-bsd libsane prelink openoffice.org-hyphenation openoffice.org-thesaurus openoffice.org-mimelnk myspell-dictionary-en openoffice.org-hyphenation-en openoffice.org-thesaurus-en openoffice.org-help-en The following NEW packages will be installed: openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 54.1MB of archives. After unpacking 179MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl unstable/main openoffice.org-bin 1.1.2dfsg1-2 [43.7MB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl unstable/main openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.2-5+1 [32.4kB] Get:3 ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl unstable/main openoffice.org-l10n-en 1.1.2dfsg1-2 [3519kB] Get:4 ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl unstable/main openoffice.org 1.1.2dfsg1-2 [6930kB] Fetched 54.1MB in 32s (1662kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package openoffice.org-bin. (Reading database ... 123541 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking openoffice.org-bin (from .../openoffice.org-bin_1.1.2dfsg1-2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package openoffice.org-debian-files. Unpacking openoffice.org-debian-files (from .../openoffice.org-debian-files_1.1.2-5+1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package openoffice.org-l10n-en. Unpacking openoffice.org-l10n-en (from .../openoffice.org-l10n-en_1.1.2dfsg1-2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package openoffice.org. Unpacking openoffice.org (from .../openoffice.org_1.1.2dfsg1-2_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org_1.1.2dfsg1-2_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite /usr/lib/openoffice/share/template/english/wizard/bitmap', which is also in package openoffice.org-l10n-en dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org_1.1.2dfsg1-2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
With the help of _rene__ on #debian i did the following to work around it. Filling this bug on request of _rene_ danuvius:~# dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org_1.1.2dfsg1-2_all.deb (Reading database ... 124062 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking openoffice.org (from .../openoffice.org_1.1.2dfsg1-2_all.deb) ... dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to overwrite /usr/lib/openoffice/share/template/english/wizard/bitmap', which is also in package openoffice.org-l10n-en dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org: openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-debian-files (>> 1.1.1+1.1.2rc3); however: Package openoffice.org-debian-files is not configured yet. openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-bin (>> 1.1.1+1.1.2rc3); however: Package openoffice.org-bin is not configured yet. openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-l10n-en (>> 1.1.1+1.1.2rc3) | openoffice.org-l10n-1.1.2; however: Package openoffice.org-l10n-en is not configured yet. Package openoffice.org-l10n-1.1.2 is not installed. Package openoffice.org-l10n-en which provides openoffice.org-l10n-1.1.2 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: openoffice.org danuvius:~# apt-get -f install And then it installs fine. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Versions of packages openoffice.org-l10n-en depends on: ii openoffice.org 1.1.2dfsg1-2 high-quality office productivity s -- no debconf information
