libre and open office conflict over dictionary-common

dictionary common and its dependencies for libre office refuses to be installed.
attempt made to remove all residual open office.

dependency tree seems to not permit clean install of libre office???

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 24 19:07:11 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (10 days ago)