How to fix this? Possibly uninstall open office - (older version) do the libre office upgrade and then install the latest Open Office version....
Any ideas? It won't FIX the shared libraries issue, but it keeps me going. How to do the fix though? Synaptic package manager.. Summary of fault. E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2_all.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.3-9783 Synaptic package manager install of Libreoffice updates. (Reading database ... 672148 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2_all.deb ... Unpacking libreoffice-common (1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.3-9783 rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/share/prereg/': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/share/': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/program/': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice': No such file or directory Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5.1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme (3.12.0-1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2ubuntu0.1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-help-en-us: libreoffice-help-en-us depends on libreoffice-l10n-en-us; however: Package libreoffice-l10n-en-us is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-help-en-us (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-style-galaxy: libreoffice-style-galaxy depends on libreoffice-common (= 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2); however: Package libreoffice-common is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-style-galaxy (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-core: libreoffice-core depends on libreoffice-common (>> 1:5.1.6~rc2); however: Package libreoffice-common is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-l10n-en-gb: libreoffice-l10n-en-gb depends on libreoffice-common; however: Package libreoffice-common is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-l10n-en-gb (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-style-elementary: libreoffice-style-elementary depends on libreoffice-style-galaxy; however: Package libreoffice-style-galaxy is not configured yet. libreoffice-style-elementary depends on libreoffice-common (= 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2); however: Package libreoffice-common is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-style-elementary (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-uno: python3-uno depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package python3-uno (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-l10n-en-za: libreoffice-l10n-en-za depends on libreoffice-common; however: Package libreoffice-common is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-l10n-en-za (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-writer: libreoffice-writer depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-writer (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-math: libreoffice-math depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-math (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-help-en-gb: libreoffice-help-en-gb depends on libreoffice-l10n-en-gb; however: Package libreoffice-l10n-en-gb is not configured yet. libreoffice-help-en-gb depends on libreoffice-style-default; however: Package libreoffice-style-default is not installed. Package libreoffice-style-elementary which provides libreoffice-style-default is not configured yet. Package libreoffice-style-galaxy which provides libreoffice-style-default is not configured yet. libreoffice-help-en-gb depends on libreoffice-writer | language-support-translations-en; however: Package libreoffice-writer is not configured yet. Package language-support-translations-en is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-help-en-gb (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-base-core: libreoffice-base-core depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-base-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured -- "Oh Benson. Dear Benson. You are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence."
