Why OpenOfficeupgrade held back

[Toby Smithe]

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Collins Richey wrote:
> On 9/23/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-23-09 at 17:45 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
>>> Not likely anyone but developers would know the answer.
>>>
>>> Why are the latest OpenOffice upgrades held back,ie I presume must be
>>> installed via dist-upgrade?
>> do "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade", and look at which new packages it wants
>> to install for you.    Then you will have your answer and you can decide
>> if you want to do the actual install or not on your system.
>>
>> Daniel
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> On 9/23/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-23-09 at 17:45 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
>>> Not likely anyone but developers would know the answer.
>>>
>>> Why are the latest OpenOffice upgrades held back,ie I presume must be
>>> installed via dist-upgrade?
>> do "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade", and look at which new packages it wants
>> to install for you.    Then you will have your answer and you can decide
>> if you want to do the actual install or not on your system.
>>
>
> Rather interesting results. If I do an apt-get dist-upgrade (I always
> run from sudo su -), I get a  number of extra packages to be installed
> and a number of packages to be removed. If, OTOH,
> I do apt-get install openoffice.org, I get larger numbers of packages
> to be removed and a gigantic list of packages (most seemingly
> unrelated) to be obsoleted.
>

I get this as well. However, I doesn't really concern me, as I run
aptitude. I thought it was a product of that; but if it's not, I would
be worried.

> So, the additional questions are
>
> 1. Has anyone developer or otherwise actually tested this packaging?

There was an unofficial repo with the packages in for testing. I used
them, and they were fine there.

> 2. Will this package break my system?

Don't run apt-get auto-remove (or whatever the command is) and you
should be alright. I do recommend running aptitude though; it has better
 reverse dependency management.
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