Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 06/07/07 19:08, Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Etch, after having successfully removed OOo 2.0 and installed OOo 2.2.0,
> after an aptitude update/upgrade aptitude complains:
>
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
>  openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-draw
>  openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer
>
> So I went into aptitude, searched for openoffice and manually set these
> packages to Keep. Is this common behavior or have I done something wrong?
>
> Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Thanks in advance, Manon.
>
> FIY:
>
> I've done the following to install OOo 2.2.0:
>
> > used aptitude to remove openoffice 2.0
> > unpacked the 2.2.0 tarball
> > aptitude install sun-java5-bin sun-java5-jre
> > alien --to-deb --keep-version --scripts *.rpm
> > dpkg -i *.deb
> > dpkg -i openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.2-9119_all.deb

Why are you using the upstream binaries instead of the Debian OOo 
2.2.x packages?

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