https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98157
Bug ID: 98157
Summary: LibreOffice installs its own /usr/bin/soffice instead
of /usr/bin/loffice (by exemple)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Installation
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: lk...@free.fr
From: Luc Maisonobe <l...@spaceroots.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: libreoffice-common: libreoffice installs its own /ust/bin/soffice
instead of using debian alternatives system
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:15:21 +0100
Package: libreoffice-common
Version: 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Since the fork between LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org (now Apache OpenOffice),
both suites install /usr/bin/soffice directly.
This completely prevents users to install both on the same computer, despite
Debian does provide a fully mature way
to support that: the alternatives.
This is particularly annnoying since /usr/bin/soffice is already a link, so
technically there is no point in forcing its destination
at installation.
With the current setting, attemptin to install the suite A when suite B has
been installed beforehand fails (whatever are
A and B, the problem is the same in both installation orders). The failure is
that dpkg refuses to overwrite /usr/bin/soffce since
it is own by the first package installed. Installation can be force using dpkg
only using the --force-overwrite flag. This is
really inconvenient and seems to contradict Debian installation rules. Even if
people manage to install both packages using dpkg
and --force-overwrite, upgrading also don't work and the same trick has to be
reused to overwrite the link.
LibreOffice (and Apache OpenOffice too) should use the alternative mechanism to
set up the /usr/bin/soffice link.
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