problem on Openoffice when update it to version 2.0.3 by apt-get

[Adam Conrad]

Zhao Xu wrote:
>
>    Any way, these days, I tryed 'apt-get -f remove openoffice*',
> 'apt-get -f remove', 'apt-get -f install', and even 'dpkg --configure
> -a' without knowing what's these commands mean. Here is some error
> messeges, Does any body can help to solve these problem? I really want
> to use my openoffice again. Thanks!

And this is why people shouldn't have dapper-proposed in their
sources.list, unless they're prepared to test (and fix) broken software
that we throw in there. :)

> Unpacking openoffice.org-core (from
> .../openoffice.org-core_2.0.3-4dapper2_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-core_2.0.3-4dapper2_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/openoffice/program/ooqstart', which is
> also in package openoffice.org-gtk

# dpkg --force-overwrite -i
/var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-core_2.0.3-4dapper2_i386.deb
# apt-get -f install

Those two command should fix you up.  The packages in dapper-proposed
were missing a debian/control entry to tell -core to overwrite -gtk.

... Adam