Restore Dapper after Edgy

[NoOp]

Brian McKee wrote:
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 21:11, NoOp wrote:
>> So my question then would be; why is openoffice an integral part to the
>> ubuntu desktop?  For instance, if you install the ubuntu desktop package
>> in Synaptics it will show that it is installing the above openoffice.org
>> files. Again, this seems to be the IE to Microsoft situation.
> 
> Thought I'd comment on just this section - ubuntu-desktop is a
> meta-package.  If you install ubuntu-desktop you get Open Office.
> That does not however mean that ubuntu requires Open Office, just that
> the 'official original setup' contained open office.   Removing that
> package removes no software.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 

Thanks.

So if one wanted to uninstall all instances of OpenOffice in Ubuntu
(Dapper or Edgy) what would be the best way to go about it?

>From Synaptics if I select uninstall openoffice.org Synaptics pops up with:

Mark additional required changes
  To be removed
    ubuntu-desktop

If I select openoffice.org-base I get
  To be removed
    openoffice.org
    openoffice.org-evolution
    ubuntu-desktop

If I select openoffice.org-common
  To be removed lists multiple OOo files as well as python-uno,
thunderbird-local-en-gb, language-support-en, and ubuntu-desktop

Ditto for openoffice.org-core

>From the above it seems that OpenOffice cannot be uninstalled from
Ubuntu without also removing ubuntu-desktop.