Restore Dapper after Edgy
NoOp
glgxg at mfire.com
Tue Oct 31 01:46:44 UTC 2006
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.
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