Ubuntu openoffice solution: update openoffice, or accidentally delete openoffice, causing an upgrade error: Java code Can't open/usr/share/applications/openoffice4-base.desktop: no such file or directory at-e line 1, <> line 3489. can't open/usr/share/applications/openoffice4-calc.desktop: No such file or directory at-e line 1, <> line 3489. can't open/usr/share/applications/openoffice4-draw.desktop: No such file or directory at-e line 1, <> line 3489. can't open/usr/share/applications/openoffice4-impress.desktop: No such file or directory at-e line 1, <> line 3489. can't open/usr/share/applications/openoffice4-javafilter.desktop: No such file or directory at-e line 1, <> line 3489. can't open/usr/share/applications/openoffice4-math.desktop: No such file or directory at-e line 1, <> line 3489. can't open/usr/share/applications/openoffice4-printeradmin.desktop: No such file or directory at-e line 1, <> line 3489. can't open/usr/share/applications/openoffice4-startcenter.desktop: No such file or directory at-e line 1, <> line 3489. can't open/usr/share/applications/openoffice4-writer.desktop: No such file or directory at-e line 1, <> line 3489. processing triggers for desktop-file-utils... processing triggers for gnome-menus... errors were encountered while processing:/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1 % 3a3. 5.7-0ubuntu4_all.deb E: Sub-process/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) solution: java code sudo dpkg -- remove -- force-remove-reinstreq libreoffice * sudo apt-get-f dist-upgrade sudo dpkg -- remove -- force-remove-reinstreq libssl-dev sudo dpkg -- remove -- force-remove-reinstreq python * sudo apt-get install python2.7 sudo apt-get-f install sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install libreoffice sudo apt-get upgrade if if you have installed apache openoffice, delete it first: java code sudo dpkg -- remove -- force-remove-reinstreq openoffice *