Libre Office Broken after system update.
I am new to Linux after trying off and on over the past few years.
I have installed Mint 17.2 Cinnamon and for a while all went well. A system update was installed but Libre office stopped working and disappeared from from the menu list of apps. I tried to reinstall libreoffice as I got a screen message to the effect that it was no longer installed. When i tried to install I got this message E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu4_all.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.2-9782 Could someone try to explain what has happened and what I can do to put things right again. Thanks |
Dogman2,
Try the following commands one at a time: Code:
sudo apt-get purge libreoffice* |
Hello beachboy2
I've done as you suggested and after a few minutes of disk activity and lines scrolling through I finish with the following lines Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu4_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Libre ofiice has not been installed |
Dogman2,
Well try this instead. Open Synaptic Package Manager (Menu > Administration > Synaptic PM). Click on the Status Tab. Then click on Custom Filters, then click on Broken. If there are broken packages, click on Edit > Fix Broken Packages. A suggestion may be given at the end of this. You MAY then need to repeat the commands in post #2. |
Hello again
I've done all as you suggested but there were no broken packages. I repeated the commands in post 2 and get the same results Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu4_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) |
Libre Office Broken after Update (Solved)
I don't know what has happened but after a further update everything seems to be back to normal. I Thank all who have helped.
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