Also the existence of a openoffice-debian-menus package suggests you've had installed unsupported third party packages (Apache OpenOffice?) which are known to get in the way of proper Ubuntu packages. Please dont do that unless you know exactly what you are doing and how to uninstall 3rd party packages.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1500744 Title: package libreoffice-common (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.1-9775 Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: i tried to install the latest version of libre office, in which i was not successful. message window opened to submit the report... sudo apt-add-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffic[Be-4- Then sudo apt-get update Then lastly i tried this command sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: libreoffice-common (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu13 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Sep 28 21:22:47 2015 ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.1-9775 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-19 (1043 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: libreoffice Title: package libreoffice-common (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.1-9775 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1500744/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
