openoffice broken on gutsy?

[Bram Kuijper]

> See the "How to fix error messages when starting Openoffice" thread.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/128211
ok, so in order to get OpenOffice working again & according to the advice of Erik Harren, I deleted a libgtk2.0 library by doing  dpkg --force-depends -r libgtk2.0-0

this worked, but now I can't reinstall the right libgtk2.0 package:

if I do sudo dpkg -i libgtk2.0 and try tab completion, it won't work. 

Guessing the libgtk's version won't work

and dpkg-query libgtk2.0 will yield the following list:
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/NEWS.gz
libgtk2.0-cil: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-cil/changelog.gz
libgtk2.0-dev: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-dev
libgtk2.0-bin: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-cil: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-cil/copyright
libgtk2.0-cil: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-cil/changelog.Debian.gz
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/changelog.Debian.gz
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/changelog.gz
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/copyright
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/NEWS.pre-1-0.gz
libgtk2.0-cil: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-cil
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/README.gz
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common

all of which cannot be installed obviously, because _version_numbers_ are lacking from the always slightly incongruential dpkg or apt mess... 

How can dpkg actually expect from its user to know the _exact_version_number_ to install a package. I am truly amazed by this.

can I still install libgtk2.0.. one might just get the current version number or so.

thank you.
Bram

PS: I think apt and dpkg are both in need for some, how do we say it, embellishment. Tab completion would be great for dpgk... info on version numbers would be great for apt.