(In case it was not acknowledged when sent from my alternate email) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Error:: While installing openoffice debian menus Date: 2019-01-26 21:58 From: jose.r.r@metztli.systems To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Nikhil Gupta <nikhilgupta360...@gmail.com>
Niltze [Hello]- On 2019-01-26 16:22, Nikhil Gupta wrote: > Hi > I built openoffice on my Ubuntu(14.04) > The build successfully run with no error message. > But when i tried to install openoffice debian menus > Following error shows: > dpkg: error processing archive /home/nikhil/help/aoo/main/instsetoo_native/ > unxlngx6.pro/Apache_OpenOffice/deb/install/en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice4.2-debian-menus_4.5-9900_all.deb > (--install): > trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package > libreoffice-common 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu5.3 > /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache > > Please help As root and/or with sudo privilege make a backup of /usr/bin/soffice and force the installation of the DEB package as: dpkg --force-all -i oo-package.deb After OO package successfully installs, analyze: ls -l /usr/bin/soffice You will find that it is a symbolic link to /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice Accordingly, you can make a proper sym link more relevant to OO, i.e., as root [or sudo]: cd /usr/bin ln -s /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice apacheoo *proceed* to make another relevant link: cd /opt/openoffice4/program/ ln -s soffice.bin apacheoo.bin That's it! Go back and delete (if necessary) and restore from backup the original /usr/bin/soffice. Now as a normal user, you can start OO from any shell by simply typing: apacheoo & at any command prompt. **For hard core Apache OO users** Now, assuming you are not using GNOME as your Desktop GUI, if I were you and LibreOffice had no *nasty* dependency on GNOME, I would just purge LibreOffice altogether ;-) apt-get purge $(dpkg-query -l "*libreoffice*" | grep ^ii | cut -d' ' -f3) < https://metztli.it/readOnlyEphemeral/libreoffice-gnome-dependency.png > which is what I do in every Metztli Reiser4 Debian -based installation for AMD64, since, if the user still decides to purge LibreOffice *but* keep GNOME, I do install my non-LibreOffice-dependency gnome Debian packages over originals *but* version(s) may be different in Ubuntu. gnome_3.22+3.1_amd64.deb gnome-core_3.22+3.1_amd64.deb < https://sourceforge.net/projects/metztli-reiser4/files/No-LibreOffice-dependency_GNOME/ > Good luck! -- Jose R R http://metztli.it --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Download Metztli Reiser4: Debian Stretch w/ Linux 4.20 AMD64 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- feats ZSTD compression https://sf.net/projects/metztli-reiser4/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Official current Reiser4 resources: https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/
