Removing Open Office Without Removing the Ubuntu Desktop?

[Brian Durant]

 --- Stephen Ryan <taketwoaspirin at gmail.com> skrev: 
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:30:44 +0100 (CET), Brian
> Durant
> <linuxnewbiedk at yahoo.dk> wrote:
> > Sounds good. Anywhere I can get more info about
> how to
> > generate an equivalent dummy packeage? Newbie
> alert
> > :-)
> 
> I can try.  To start, you'll need the equivs program
> installed, either
> from Synaptic or by apt-get at the command line.
> $ sudo apt-get install equivs
> 
> Equivs can be used to make dummy packages for a
> number of different
> reasons; for your purposes, you need to pretend that
> the
> openoffice.org packages are installed, so the dummy
> package should
> look like one of the real openoffice.org packages. 
> To do this, equivs
> needs a control file listing the appropriate
> packages that it should
> be substituting for.
> 
> =====
> Section: editors
> Package: oo-dummy
> Provides: openoffice.org, openoffice.org-help-en,
> openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-gb,
> openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us,
> openoffice.org-mimelnk
> Description: Dummy package for openoffice.org
>   This dummy package satisfies dependencies for
> openoffice.org, so
>   you can use a locally installed copy of StarOffice
> instead, for example.
> =====
> 
> Save this as "oo-dummy.control".  Now run
> equivs-build to actually
> create the package.
> Open a terminal window and type:
> $ equivs-build oo-dummy.control
> 
> This prints out a bunch of stuff, which ends in a
> message about it
> creating a package file named oo-dummy_1.0_all.deb
> in the current
> directory.  Install this package; since it isn't
> part of the Ubuntu
> repository, you'll have to install it by hand.
> 
> $ sudo dpkg -i oo-dummy_1.0_all.deb
> 
> You should now be free to remove the openoffice.org
> packages without
> affecting ubuntu-desktop.  Fair warning: while I did
> try removing one
> of the hyphenation packages, I didn't try a full
> openoffice.org
> removal.  Also, if there is anything that actually
> depends on
> openoffice.org for functionality (as opposed to
> ubuntu-desktop, where
> the dependency is solely to make installations and
> upgrades easier),
> the dummy package won't help.  I've put a copy of
> the control file and
> a copy of the resulting oo-dummy_1.0_all.deb on my
> website at
> http://sryan.stearns.org/~sryan/ if that helps you
> any.

Many thanks. It seems to have worked fine, though I
did get a message about dependencies involved with
removing  openoffice.org-debian-files. I don't know,
is that a problem??? Also, I am not really clear about
how you created this "oo-dummy.control" file.

Cheers,

Brian