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I tried to uninstall OpenOffice and install LibreOffice (Writer), but I got an error message (and now I can't seem to install anything from Ubuntu Software).

sudo apt-get purge openoffice

or maybe

sudo apt-get purge openoffice*

After that I went to Ubuntu Software and tried to install LibreOffice Writer. I got the following error message:

"An error occurred, please run package manager from the right click menu [..] to see what is wrong. The error message was: "Error: BrokenCount > 0". This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies."

I wanted to follow this answer:

Trying to fix broken dependancies ( Libre Office)

but I don't know how to download Synaptic Package Manager, since Ubuntu Software isn't working for me.

Here's what I get when I write sudo apt-get install libreoffice in the terminal:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree   

Reading state information... Done    

You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:    

The following packages have unmet dependencies:    

 libreoffice : Depends: fonts-sil-gentium-basic but it is not going to be installed    

               Depends: libreoffice-base but it is not going to be installed    

               Depends: libreoffice-calc but it is not going to be installed    

               Depends: libreoffice-draw but it is not going to be installed    

               Depends: libreoffice-impress but it is not going to be installed    

               Depends: libreoffice-report-builder-bin but it is not going to be installed    

               Depends: libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer but it is not going to be installed    

               Depends: fonts-dejavu but it is not going to be installed    

               Depends: libreoffice-java-common (>= 1:5.1.4~) but it is not going to be installed    

               Recommends: libreoffice-gnome but it is not going to be installed or

                           libreoffice-kde but it is not going to be installed

 libreoffice-core : Depends: libreoffice-common (> 1:5.1.4) but it is not going to be installed    

 libreoffice-help-en-us : Depends: libreoffice-l10n-en-us    

 libreoffice-l10n-en-gb : Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not going to be installed    

 libreoffice-l10n-en-za : Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not going to be installed    

 libreoffice-l10n-sv : Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not going to be installed    

 libreoffice-style-elementary : Depends: libreoffice-common (= 1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed    

 libreoffice-style-galaxy : Depends: libreoffice-common (= 1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed    

E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I tried: sudo apt-get install -f and got:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Correcting dependencies... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  hunspell-sv-se hyphen-en-gb hyphen-sv libboost-iostreams1.58.0 libcdr-0.1-1 libfreehand-0.1-1 libmspub-0.1-1 liborcus-0.10-0v5

  libpagemaker-0.0-0 libreoffice-help-en-gb libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-help-sv libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-za

  libreoffice-l10n-sv libvisio-0.1-1 linux-headers-4.4.0-21 linux-headers-4.4.0-21-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-22

  linux-headers-4.4.0-22-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-24 linux-headers-4.4.0-24-generic linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic

  linux-image-4.4.0-22-generic linux-image-4.4.0-24-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-21-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-22-generic

  linux-image-extra-4.4.0-24-generic mythes-en-au mythes-sv

Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

The following additional packages will be installed:

  libreoffice-common

Suggested packages:

  libreoffice-style-breeze libreoffice-style-hicontrast libreoffice-style-human libreoffice-style-oxygen libreoffice-style-sifr

  libreoffice-style-tango

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  libreoffice-common

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

14 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 22,3 MB of archives.

After this operation, 84,8 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Get:1 http://gensho.acc.umu.se/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libreoffice-common all 1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1 [22,3 MB]

Fetched 22,3 MB in 8s (2 610 kB/s)                                                                                                            

(Reading database ... 303951 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack .../libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb ...

Unpacking libreoffice-common (1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1) ...

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):

 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.2-9782

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 bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1) ...

Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...

Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...

Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2ubuntu0.1) ...

Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Tried sudo apt-get purge openoffice-* and got:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Note, selecting 'openoffice-ogltrans' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-writer' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-gnome-integration' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-onlineupdate' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-en-us-help' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-ooolinguistic' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-ure' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-desktop-integration' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-debian-menus' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-pyuno' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-xsltfilter' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-graphicfilter' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-ooofonts' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-core01' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-core02' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-core03' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-core04' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-core05' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-core06' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-core07' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-en-us-writer' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-en-us-calc' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-en-us-draw' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-calc' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-impress' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-en-us-math' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-draw' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-en-us' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-en-us-impress' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-math' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-unbundled' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-en-us-base' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-en-us-res' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-base' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-images' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Note, selecting 'openoffice-javafilter' for glob 'openoffice-*'

Package 'openoffice-unbundled' is not installed, so not removed

Note, selecting 'openoffice-debian-menus' instead of 'openoffice-desktop-integration'

You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 libreoffice-core : Depends: libreoffice-common (> 1:5.1.4) but it is not going to be installed

 libreoffice-help-en-us : Depends: libreoffice-l10n-en-us

 libreoffice-l10n-en-gb : Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not going to be installed

 libreoffice-l10n-en-za : Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not going to be installed

 libreoffice-l10n-sv : Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not going to be installed

 libreoffice-style-elementary : Depends: libreoffice-common (= 1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed

 libreoffice-style-galaxy : Depends: libreoffice-common (= 1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I had similar problem.
I did:
sudo apt-get purge openoffice-*
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt-get install libreoffice

and the problem was solved.