Broken LibreOffice Installation on Ubuntu 20.04

wizkid5000 · September 29, 2020, 4:15pm

can someone help with this:

cannot copy extracted data for ‘./usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3’ to ‘/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3.dpkg-new’
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS it has broken my update software

[Edit Opaque] Changed title to describve what the question is really about.

anon73440385 · September 29, 2020, 5:05pm

Which repository do you use? Base Ubuntu repos, PPA or TDF packages?

wizkid5000 · September 29, 2020, 6:23pm

the Base repo I think its the package manager bundle with

anon73440385 · September 29, 2020, 5:12pm

Hello,

I’d suggest to perform the following (using a terminal program)

Complete Deinstallation

dpkg --list | awk '/ii/&&/libreoffice/{print $2}' | sudo xargs apt --yes purge
sudo apt --yes autoremove
sudo rm -r /usr/lib/libreoffice/* (seems to be important in your case)

New Installation (if using Ubuntu Base Repos or PPA)

sudo apt update --yes
sudo apt install libreoffice libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb libreoffice-help-en-us --yes

Hope that helps