OOo 2.0 removal [dapper]

[Larry Hartman]

I did this in Edgy.....after some thought I decided to deinstall the older 
version first...when done, then I converted the new versions RPMs to DEBs and 
installed it.  Not had a bit of trouble...been over three weeks and I use OOO 
quite a bit.


On Friday 12 January 2007 15:32, Kelly L. Fulks wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote:
> > On Friday 12 January 2007 11:04, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> >> On Friday 12 January 2007 8:46 am, Art Alexion wrote:
> >>> I downloaded 2.1 from the OOo website and converted the RPMs to DEBs. 
> >>> It installs in /opt and seems to run fine.  I have no use for the OOo
> >>> 2.0 the comes with Kubuntu Dapper.  Can I safely remove or will it
> >>> break something else?  How do I tell apt-get to remove 2.0 and not 2.1?
> >>
> >> Your package manager doesn't know anything about /opt, so if you
> >> uninstall the distro package, that should be that.
> >
> > I gave it a shot and aborted.  In addition to openoffice-*
> >
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   aspell aspell-en dictionaries-common gnome-spell kubuntu-desktop
> >   mozilla-thunderbird myspell-en-gb myspell-en-us
> >
> > What are the chances that I can reinistall these packages without
> > reinstalling OOo 2.0.2?
>
> kubuntu-desktop is simply a meta-package that has dependencies on a
> number of packages to force their installation.  You probably can't
> install it without getting OOo 2.0.2, but I would guess that the others
> would go back with little difficulty.  Since I am at work (forced into
> the windows desktop world here for now), I can't look at the
> dependencies of the other packages.
>
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> Kelly L. Fulks
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