Workaround: I've found it is not necessary to uninstall Sophos Anti-virus, just disabling the on-access scanning is enough:
/opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl disable apt-get upgrade /opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl enable and re-enable it afterwards, so you still have the AV protection the rest of the time. Thanks to John Correa - his post reminded me I should add this note. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1454668 Title: Failed to upgrade/reinstall libreoffice-common To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1454668/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs