removing OpenOffice

[Freddie Cash]

On Tue, August 15, 2006 9:51 am, Urtzi Jauregi wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 18:32, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>>> I suggest you install kde-core, then delete kubuntu-desktop, and
>>> finally delete Openoffice and whatever other superfluous KDE
>>> applications you might have. That should be enough.
>>
>> But will not a 'dist-upgrade' simply install the kubuntu-desktop
>> plus everything else including openoffice.org?
>
> If I understand correctly, a dist-upgrade will only touch those
> metapackages you have already installed. It will upgrade kde-core,
> but it will not install kubuntu-desktop if you don't have it. Could
> any guru out there confirm whether I'm right?

upgrade and dist-upgrade only look at already installed packages.  It
will not install so-called "missing" packages.  It doesn't have a
master list of what you originally installed.  All the upgrade and
dist-upgrade targets do is go through the list of packages you have
installed that have upgrades available, work out the dependencies of
those upgrades, and then upgrade/install those packages.

The difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is that one tries
harder to not uninstall existing packages, and to work out the
dependencies better.

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