Re: problem with ooffice from backports

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@acsalaska.net>]

On Thursday 01 April 2010 03:03:53 pm Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2010-04-01, Marcelo Chiapparini <marcelo.chiappa@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi!
> >
> > I am running Lenny in a i386 machine. I have the following line in the
> > sources.list file:
> >
> >   deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib
> > non-free
> >
> > After updating the package information, the openoffice.org-style-galaxy
> > package appears in the following way in synaptic:
> >
> > openoffice.org-style-galaxy 1:3.2.0-4~bpo50+1
> >
> > But the openoffice.org and  openoffice.org-style-galaxy packages at
> > backports are in version 1:3.1.1-15+squeeze1~bpo50+1, the same version is
> > for the openoffice.org package in synaptic. This mismatch between the
> > version of openoffice.org-style-galaxy in synaptic and in the backports
> > site precludes me to install openoffice.org from backports. I commented
> > the backports line in sources.list, updated the package information,
> > uncommented again the line and updating the package information again,
> > but the version of openoffice.org-style-galaxy package in synaptic
> > remains the same wrong 1:3.2.0-4~bpo50+1. The situation is the following:
> >
> > package
> >                version
> >                                                     synaptic
> >                                          backports.org
> >
> > openoffice.org                                1:3.1.1-15+squeeze1~bpo50+1
> >                       1:3.1.1-15+squeeze1~bpo50+1
> > openoffice.org-style-galaxy              1:3.2.0-4~bpo50+1
> >                        1:3.1.1-15+squeeze1~bpo50+1
> >
> >
> >
> > How can I tell synaptic to updated the correct information
> > regarding openoffice.org-style-galaxy version in order to match the one
> > in the openoffice.org package? (the same problem with the style-oxygen
> > package)
>
> Is your architecture i386? Not all of the OOo 3.2 packages have been
> built for that architecture yet. The issue was discussed recently on the
> linux.debian.backports.general list.
>
> --
> Liam O'Toole
> Birmingham, United Kingdom

Thanks for the tip on the backports list. I use backports and probably will for 
some time.

From time to time backports is a little like testing, things get out of sync but 
are fixed quickly. Right now the OP's issue wants to remove all of my openoffice 
apps (3.1.1-15), but i will wait it out.

-- 
Peace

Greg Madden