Re: OpenOffice.org broken in AMD64 Sid?
Russ Cook wrote:
> Perhaps it *is *user error, but I took no explicit action to remove any
> modules, and the Open Office
> did work previously. It was my understanding that apt-get upgrade never
> removes packages, so
But dist-upgrade does.
> I thought perhaps there was a disconnect in the package structure of
> openoffice for Sid.
Yep, there was, it was uninstallable for a bit of time.
> Is there a metapackage that will reinstall all basic functionality of
> the openoffice suite (writer,
> spreadsheet, presentation) or must I now research the missing components
> and manually install?
man apt-cache? (apt-get install openoffice.org)
> I was under the (mis)understanding that running apt-get install install
> openoffice.org would do
> this, but it does not (for me).
It does. (assuming you really don't have -writer installed).
> Maybe it's just one of the joys an unsophisticated Debian user should
> expect when running the
> unstable distribution. I rarely have problems like this.
Jup.
Grüße/Regards,
René
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