Hi Kenneth, I usually remove LO with Synaptic before installing OpenOffice. Never had a problem ;-)
This page explains how to do it via command line: https://websiteforstudents.com/replace-libreoffice-openoffice-ubuntu-17-04-17-10/ Kind regards Matthias Am 22.10.2017 um 23:56 schrieb Kenneth Mcfarland: > In further thought there is also the possibility of using sudo dpkg > --force-all -i *.deb which could possibly leave LibreOffice working, > although in my personal opinion no situation would arise where I would need > both suites. > > Hopefully someone else has some input on this as my intent is just to ease > installation for anyone doing what I did twenty minutes ago. > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Kenneth Mcfarland < > kennethpaulmcfarl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello OpenOffice Team >> >> Nice work! I kicked LibreOffice to the curb today after seeing the twitter >> posting. It's great to be back and use Apache being a contributor to other >> projects. >> >> Anyways, there is one small thing that could make peoples lives easier. >> Here is my use case: >> >> I run Ubuntu 16.04 which comes with Libre, a lot of other people who are >> thrifty or love linux could be in my situation. The install notes that the >> path /usr/bin/soffice needs to be removed but this is *not* enough. Even >> after removing it, there will be errors during installation the generic >> "error /usr/bin/soffice libreoffice blah blah error". >> >> One needs to sudo apt-get -f remove libreoffice-common or the install will >> fail. I know, I just finished. Here is the ubuntu board I found during my >> search. First reply. >> >> https://askubuntu.com/questions/382041/dpkg-error- >> processing-openoffice4-0-debian-menus-4-0-9714-all-deb >> >> It would simply be nice if the en_US installation directory contained a >> file called INSTALL that concisely pointed this out as I did read the >> readmes both of them. The HTML version does a lot better job pointing this >> out, but is still insufficient as described above. >> >> I would be happy to do the work of correcting this if nobody else can. >> >> Sincerely, >> Kenneth McFarland >> >>
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