[ubuntu-uk] OpenOffice 3.0 repositories for Hardy

[Lucy]

On 21/10/2008, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
>  > 2008/10/21 Bruce Beardall <bruce72 at gmail.com>:
>  >> Tombuntu is usually pretty good with his How-to instructions.
>  >>
>  >> http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/10/14/install-openofficeorg-30-in-ubuntu-804-and-810/
>  >>
>  >
>  > Shame he relegates the fact that removing OO.o 2.4 removes
>  > ubuntu-desktop, and thus will in all likelyhood break the next upgrade
>  > you do to a throwaway comment "so don't do this if you want to be able
>  > to upgrade Ubuntu to a new major version."
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > Al.
>  >
>
>
> I managed to remove OpenOffice 2.4 by removing OpenOffice.org-core and
>  it didn't seem to remove Ubuntu-Desktop :-)

I removed it using aptitude and refused its first offer of removing
the ubuntu-desktop, aptitude then gave me the option of just removing
openoffice (and a python lib).