Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?
Liam O'Toole wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:53:22 -0700
Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:
Liam O'Toole wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:10:11 -0700
Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:
Apt-cache depends shows openoffice.org-core04u as being dependant
on kdelibs4, which is, of couse, dependant on libarts1.
I have OpenOffice 2 installed from the tarball at openoffice.org,
and then converted using alien. Apt is not showing anything else
from oo.o that is to be removed. Is this file just for
compatibility with KDE? Can I safely remove it without making a
mess of OO.o, as long as I am not running KDE?
See the output of 'dpkg -s openoffice.org-core04u'.
That is the same as 'apt-cache show openoffice.org-core04u' which I
had already done:
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[SNIP]
Can anyone give me a clue as to whether I need this package, or not?
Please.
No, this is doing a lot more than providing KDE compatibility. Removing
it will cripple openoffice.
Are you running Sarge? OOo2 has been backported:
http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/
Note that the official openoffice.org-core packages (in Etch and Sid)
do not depend on kdelibs4; I expect that the same will be true of the
backported package.
Yes, I am running Sarge. I do not think that OOo had been backported
when I installed the upstream packages. (I generally do not worry about
backports.) I looked at the backports version since then but it has
many other dependancies which the upstream version does not.
If I tell apt to do a dist-upgrade I get the following output:
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$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openoffice.org-debian-menus
The following NEW packages will be installed:
antlr gjdoc jikes kaffe kaffe-common kaffe-pthreads libgnujaxp-java
libgnujaxp-jni libneon24
libwpd8 libxt-java openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-java-common
openoffice.org-l10n-en-us python-uno
The following packages have been kept back:
openoffice.org-base remind
The following packages will be upgraded:
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-impress
openoffice.org-math
openoffice.org-writer
5 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/90.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 203MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
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So it wants to upgrade only 5 of the upstream packages and install
SIXTEEN NEW PACKAGES! I actually did do this, temporarily, but the ui
fonts were not as nice and there was some flakiness with loading and
saving packages. It would occaisionally give me an error to the effect
that "BASIC is missing" or something like that. If I just clicked
through the error it would load, or save, just fine, though.
I then deleted the new packages that it had installed, along with the
updated OOo ones. Then I reinstalled the upstream versions of the
packages that had been updated. This got me back to what I originally
had, but the errors on loading and saving still occaisionally crop up. I
am guessing that this is due to some confusion between the upstream and
debian versions, since it only updated 5 of the packages. I had hoped
that removing the Debian packages and reinstalling the upstream ones
would fix things, but it seems not to have completely done so. I may
have to uninstall OOo completely, and then install from scratch
whichever version I decide to go with.
--
Marc Shapiro
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