Re: LibreOffice complete removal.
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 04:07 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 02:57 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > Yesterday I removed the meta-package of LibreOffice, and
> > then installed the source package of LibreOffice 3.6.5.2. I
> > now find that it wasn't fully removed as I'm still able to open and
> > use documents with the old programme.
> >
> > So, how do I *completely* remove all of the old LibreOffice without
> > removing all or most of Gnome, which I still want to have around,
> > please?
>
> $ man apt-get
> remove
> remove is identical to install except that packages are
> removed instead of installed. Note the removing a
> package leaves its configuration files in system. If a plus
> sign is appended to the package name (with no
> intervening space), the identified package will be installed
> instead of removed.
> purge
> purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed
> and purged (any configuration files are deleted too).
>
> This metapackage installs all components of libreoffice:
>
> * libreoffice-writer: Word processor
> * libreoffice-calc: Spreadsheet
> * libreoffice-impress: Presentation
> * libreoffice-draw: Drawing
> * libreoffice-base: Database
> * libreoffice-math: Equation editor
> * libreoffice-filter-mobiledev: Mobile Devices filters
>
> You need to remove or purge those packages. Those packages can't depend
> to the metapackage, since some users perhaps don't want to install all
> packages ;), just the metapackage is dependent to all of those packages.
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/libreoffice
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
Sorry for the bad English, I guess the context does explain what I
mean ;), IOW if you install the single packages, they don't need the
metapackage, IOW if you remove the metapackage, you don't remove a
libreoffice package, but the metapackage needs all the libreoffice
packages.
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