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Hello guys I've got a little problem, trying to install OpenOffice 3.4 I get dpkg error:

The following NEW packages will be installed
  openoffice
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/321 MB of archives.
After this operation, 328 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 312916 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openoffice (from .../openoffice_3.4~precise_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice_3.4~precise_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/application-registry/openoffice.org3.applications', which is also in package openoffice.org-debian-menus 3.4-9590
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice_3.4~precise_amd64.deb
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

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

Could someone please post a reply how can I fix this?

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