I used the killall soffice.bin command about eight times, and then
finally the last time pdfimport, filter-binfilter and the third program
that wouldn't install ran and terminated normally. Synaptic now reports
no more broken packages, and things are back to normal
Thank you for that tip. the
Dear Jean-Baptiste,
I went to the but report you mentioned, read through and methodically
went through each suggested corrective measure. Nothing changed.
Finally, I got to the suggestion to use killall soffice.bin which I
did with sudo, and it took six more tries, but then it finally went
As I indicated in another email I sent to you, before I read all of your
comment above (sorry!), I have restarted my computer, gone immediately
to synaptic, looked up the broken package and attempted to upgrade it,
and it still tells me OO is running, although I have done nothing but
reboot and go
I checked through the options for OO, and Quickstarter is installed but
not enabled, so I do not have a Quickstarter icon on my taskbar, but
synaptic continues to tell me to close OO including quickstarter before
updating this package.
???
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package openoffice.org-filter-binfilter
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Karmic Koala 64-bit
2.6.31-19 generic
Gnome 2.28.1
4G RAM
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
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package openoffice.org-filter-binfilter 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1 failed to
install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
exit status 1
