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I'm getting this error every time I do apt-get update

Ign http://ni.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en_US           
Ign http://ni.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted Translation-en_US           
Ign http://ni.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en_US             
Reading package lists... Done                                                  
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libreoffice-l10n
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libreoffice-l10n
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libreoffice-l10n
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libreoffice-l10n
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libreoffice-l10n
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libreoffice-l10n
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libreoffice-l10n
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W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libreoffice-l10n
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libreoffice-l10n
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libreoffice-l10n
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

This error started to show after I upgraded LibreOffice form 5.2 to 5.3 with the LibreOffice PPA: ppa:libreoffice/ppa.

The thing is that everything is working fine. I can update/upgrade the system, I can install packages, delete packages, etc. The problem is just with the error.

I tried: apt-get autoclean, apt-get clean, apt-get autoremove, apt-get install -f, and a lot of other things and nothing removes that ugly error.

Zanna
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Carlos Estrada
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  • Have you tried purging your existing libreoffice and completely reinstalling? – Sirajus Salekin Feb 06 '17 at 14:08
  • I just tried that. Removed all installed packages from the PPA. Removed the PPA with "ppa-purge". The error disappears. But after adding the PPA again the error shows up. So it seems the problem is with the PPA. – Carlos Estrada Feb 06 '17 at 14:59
  • Questions about bugs are off-topic. I'm flagging this question to be closed – MadMike Feb 24 '17 at 12:46
  • Follow the known bug status here : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1662227?comments=all – SteoG5972 Feb 10 '17 at 08:28

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According to bug report #1662227 that's because the PPA for LibreOffice doesn't provide translation files for languages aside from English.

You can either

  1. safely ignore this warning message as a mostly cosmetic issue or
  2. remove/disable the LibreOffice PPA and use the packages from Canonical's repositories instead.
David Foerster
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Rather than downloading from PPA, you can try installing it using snap.

sudo snap install libreoffice

to enable snap packages in 14.04 run

sudo apt-get install snapd

Sources: libreoffice 5.3 snap package, snap in ubuntu 14.04

Make sure to purge existing installation first.

Sirajus Salekin
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    I know that's an option. But I prefer a PPA for now. I have always used it and it has work fine. I just want to know if it's actually a bug with the PPA or there is something wrong with my system. – Carlos Estrada Feb 06 '17 at 15:57
  • @CarlosEstrada, this user is facing the same problem as you. It seems everyone blamed LO 5.3 – Sirajus Salekin Feb 06 '17 at 16:03
  • I made a report in launchpad. By the way, the snap of libreoffice is working great. Thank you. – Carlos Estrada Feb 06 '17 at 16:24
  • @CarlosEstrada, glad to know that. However, the snap LibreOffice have some bug too, you'll face problems with custom themes, also, some files outside snaps sandbox will be unreachable for LibreOffice. – Sirajus Salekin Feb 06 '17 at 16:31
  • snap does not install on 14.04 and it has been like that for a long while – Lj MT Mar 11 '19 at 15:08
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The packages description in debian/control in the PPA is wrong and says the l10n-*-packages for 5.3 would include l10n-5.2.

The package has to be rebuilt; see This Ubuntu Users forum post for a How-To.

Zanna
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