[Solved] Trouble installing OpenOffice 4.1.1 in Ubuntu 14.04
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 4:40 am
I've seen that I'm not the first to run into trouble trying to install OO 4.1.1 in Ubuntu. I've been trying to do this on and off for two days. I've followed instructions from several tutorials. Everytime my laptop goes through the process of trying to install but then the install fails. Here's the output from my terminal window:
I was hoping to install Open Office, not Libre Office. In fact, I've removed Libre Office. Here's what my terminal says when I try to install Open Office 4.1.1.
I'm noticing that when I get to the Desktop Integration folder and give the command "sudo dpkg -i *.deb" that an error occurs:
dpkg: error processing archive openoffice4.1-debian-menus_4.1.1-9775_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package libreoffice-common 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2
Could this have something to do with the problem? I've removed Libre Office already, and repeated the removal procedure numerous times -- each time getting confirmation that the program is removed already.
I'm learning Linux in fits and starts. Since I have Ubuntu, things mostly happen smoothly. But when I have to open a terminal and use commands to install something, my lack of experience shows. I have other demanding commitments, so I don't really get familiar with Linux commands until I get in a bind like this. If you have information, please try to state it simply -- thanks.
I was hoping to install Open Office, not Libre Office. In fact, I've removed Libre Office. Here's what my terminal says when I try to install Open Office 4.1.1.
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gil@gil-ThinkPad-T400:~$ cd /
gil@gil-ThinkPad-T400:/$ cd usr
gil@gil-ThinkPad-T400:/usr$ cd local
gil@gil-ThinkPad-T400:/usr/local$ cd src
gil@gil-ThinkPad-T400:/usr/local/src$ cd DEB
bash: cd: DEB: No such file or directory
gil@gil-ThinkPad-T400:/usr/local/src$ cd DEBS
gil@gil-ThinkPad-T400:/usr/local/src/DEBS$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
[sudo] password for gil:
(Reading database ... 264688 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack openoffice_4.1.1-6_i386.deb ...
Unpacking openoffice (4.1.1-6) over (4.1.1-6) ...
Preparing to unpack openoffice-base_4.1.1-6_i386.deb ...
Unpacking openoffice-base (4.1.1-6) over (4.1.1-6) ...
Preparing to unpack openoffice-brand-base_4.1.1-6_i386.deb ...
Unpacking openoffice-brand-base (4.1.1-6) over (4.1.1-6) ...
Preparing to unpack openoffice-brand-calc_4.1.1-6_i386.deb ...
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Preparing to unpack openoffice-brand-draw_4.1.1-6_i386.deb ...
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Preparing to unpack openoffice-brand-en-gb_4.1.1-6_i386.deb ...
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Preparing to unpack openoffice-brand-impress_4.1.1-6_i386.deb ...
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Preparing to unpack openoffice-core01_4.1.1-6_i386.deb ...
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Unpacking openoffice-xsltfilter (4.1.1-6) over (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-ure (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-core01 (4.1.1-6) ...
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Setting up openoffice-core06 (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-core07 (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-draw (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-en-gb (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-en-gb-base (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-en-gb-calc (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-en-gb-draw (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-en-gb-help (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-en-gb-impress (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-en-gb-math (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-en-gb-res (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-en-gb-writer (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-gnome-integration (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-graphicfilter (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-images (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-impress (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-javafilter (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-math (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-ogltrans (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-onlineupdate (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-ooofonts (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-ooolinguistic (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-pyuno (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-writer (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-xsltfilter (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-base (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-brand-base (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-brand-draw (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-brand-en-gb (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-brand-impress (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-brand-math (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-brand-writer (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-calc (4.1.1-6) ...
Setting up openoffice-brand-calc (4.1.1-6) ...
gil@gil-ThinkPad-T400:/usr/local/src/DEBS$ cd desktop-integration
gil@gil-ThinkPad-T400:/usr/local/src/DEBS/desktop-integration$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
(Reading database ... 264688 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack openoffice4.1-debian-menus_4.1.1-9775_all.deb ...
Unpacking openoffice-debian-menus (4.1.1-9775) ...
dpkg: error processing archive openoffice4.1-debian-menus_4.1.1-9775_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package libreoffice-common 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2
/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3) ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme (3.10.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
openoffice4.1-debian-menus_4.1.1-9775_all.deb
gil@gil-ThinkPad-T400:/usr/local/src/DEBS/desktop-integration$
dpkg: error processing archive openoffice4.1-debian-menus_4.1.1-9775_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package libreoffice-common 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2
Could this have something to do with the problem? I've removed Libre Office already, and repeated the removal procedure numerous times -- each time getting confirmation that the program is removed already.
I'm learning Linux in fits and starts. Since I have Ubuntu, things mostly happen smoothly. But when I have to open a terminal and use commands to install something, my lack of experience shows. I have other demanding commitments, so I don't really get familiar with Linux commands until I get in a bind like this. If you have information, please try to state it simply -- thanks.