I am running Ubuntu 12.04.2 as a live system. I have the LibreOffice repo installed. From sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu precise main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu precise main When I try to upgrade LibreOffice from the version included by default in Ubuntu 12.04.2 to whatever the latest version in the repo is as of 31 March 2013, the upgrade fails and LibreOffice Writer crashes if I attempt to run it. (This has been happening for about 2 weeks now.) Here is what terminal gives me when I attempt to 'sudo apt-get upgrade': The following packages will be REMOVED: libexttextcat0 The following NEW packages will be installed: libboost-date-time1.46.1 libcdr-0.0-0 libclucene-contribs1 libclucene-core1 libcmis-0.3-3 libexttextcat-2.0-0 libframe6 libgeis1 libgrail5 libmspub-0.0-0 libreoffice-pdfimport libvisio-0.0-0 linux-image-3.2.0-39-generic sbsigntool The following packages will be upgraded: accountsservice bind9-host dmsetup dnsutils fonts-opensymbol ginn gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data gnome-online-accounts gnome-screenshot gwibber gwibber-service gwibber-service-facebook gwibber-service-identica gwibber-service-twitter language-selector-common language-selector-gnome libaccountsservice0 libbind9-80 libdevmapper-event1.02.1 libdevmapper1.02.1 libdns81 libexttextcat-data libgnome-control-center1 libgoa-1.0-0 libgoa-1.0-common libgrip0 libgwibber-gtk2 libgwibber2 libisc83 libisccc80 libisccfg82 liblightdm-gobject-1-0 liblvm2app2.2 liblwres80 libneon27-gnutls libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-emailmerge libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress libreoffice-math libreoffice-style-human libreoffice-style-tango libreoffice-writer libssl1.0.0 libssl1.0.0:i386 libunity-2d-private0 libunity-core-5.0-5 libxml2 libxml2:i386 libxml2-utils libxrandr-dev libxrandr2 lightdm linux-generic linux-image-generic openssl python-libxml2 python-uno rsyslog ubiquity ubiquity-frontend-gtk ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork unity unity-2d-common unity-2d-panel unity-2d-shell unity-2d-spread unity-common unity-services uno-libs3 ure 78 upgraded, 14 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 129 MB of archives. After this operation, 188 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y [...] Fetched 129 MB in 1min 30s (1,426 kB/s) libreoffice-gnome:amd64 conflicts with libreoffice-core:amd64 Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 190824 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.3 (using .../libxml2_2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.4_amd64.deb) ... De-configuring libxml2:i386 ... Unpacking replacement libxml2 ... Preparing to replace libxml2:i386 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.3 (using .../libxml2_2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libxml2:i386 ... Setting up libxml2 (2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.4) ... Setting up libxml2:i386 (2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.4) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place (Reading database ... 190824 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ure 4.0.1~rc2-0ubuntu1~precise1~ppa1 (using .../ure_4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ure ... Preparing to replace uno-libs3 4.0.1~rc2-0ubuntu1~precise1~ppa1 (using .../uno-libs3_4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement uno-libs3 ... Preparing to replace libreoffice-writer 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 (using .../libreoffice-writer_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libreoffice-writer ... Preparing to replace libreoffice-calc 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 (using .../libreoffice-calc_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libreoffice-calc ... Preparing to replace libreoffice-base-core 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 (using .../libreoffice-base-core_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libreoffice-base-core ... Preparing to replace libreoffice-impress 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 (using .../libreoffice-impress_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libreoffice-impress ... Preparing to replace libreoffice-draw 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 (using .../libreoffice-draw_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libreoffice-draw ... Preparing to replace libreoffice-style-tango 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 (using .../libreoffice-style-tango_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libreoffice-style-tango ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... dpkg: libreoffice-core: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: python-uno depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1). libreoffice-gtk depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1). libreoffice-emailmerge depends on libreoffice-core. libreoffice-gnome depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1). libreoffice-math depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1). (Reading database ... 190824 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libreoffice-core ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... (Reading database ... 190629 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libreoffice-gnome 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 (using .../libreoffice-gnome_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libreoffice-gnome ... Preparing to replace libreoffice-gtk 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 (using .../libreoffice-gtk_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libreoffice-gtk ... Selecting previously unselected package libreoffice-core. dpkg: considering deconfiguration of libreoffice-common, which would be broken by installation of libreoffice-core ... dpkg: yes, will deconfigure libreoffice-common (broken by libreoffice-core). Unpacking libreoffice-core (from .../libreoffice-core_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_amd64.deb) ... De-configuring libreoffice-common ... Preparing to replace libreoffice-common 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1 (using .../libreoffice-common_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libreoffice-common ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_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~precise1~ppa1 dpkg-deb (subprocess): subprocess data was killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2 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 Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.0.2~rc1-0ubuntu1~precise2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The OS GUI then gives me a "System problem detected" error. I do not have any LibreOffice extensions involved; this is from a brand new install of Ubuntu each time (live system). Thanks!
Björn: would say Ubuntu bug, what do you think?
downstream bug, see also: https://lists.launchpad.net/libreoffice/msg00049.html
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 62725 ***