https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98157
--- Comment #1 from Stéphane Aulery <[email protected]> --- Since the fork between LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org (now Apache OpenOffice), both suites install an /usr/bin/soffice link directly on Debian systems. 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, attempting 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/soffice since it is owned 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. Apache OpenOffice (and LibreOffice too) should use the alternatives mechanism to set up the /usr/bin/soffice link on the Debian packaging system. Note that the same bug report has already been filed on the Debian bug tracker for LibreOffice (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695916). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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