nautilus + terminal

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 11:38:27AM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 03/06/2011 10:53 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:29:26PM +0000, Tony Pursell wrote:
> > 
> >           .........snip.........
> > 
> >> 
> >> I wonder how you installed LibreOffice?  It is not available in the
> >> current version of Ubuntu so you can only install it from a source like
> >> LibreOffice itself.  This means that the instructions you are given do
> >> not necessarily come from Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Then why is it in my 10.04 synaptic? I have no repos in my sources.list
> > file other than Ubuntu ones. BTW, I installed it from the Ubuntu repos
> > and later uninstalled it.
> > 
> 
> 
> It will appear in Synaptic if you installed using the dpkg.
> 
> What do you show for:
> 
> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep libreoffice
> 
> Can you also show the output of:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy libreoffice
> and
> $ apt-cache policy libreoffice3
> 
> If on that last you get:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy libreoffice3
> libreoffice3:
>   Installed: 3.3.1-19
>   Candidate: 3.3.1-19
>   Version table:
>  *** 3.3.1-19 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> and nothing on the previous, then you have the dpkg version installed.
> 
> dpkg installs will show in Synaptic. However when you view, notice that
> the 'Download' column will show '0 B'.

The apt-cache policy commands both show "unable to locate..." meaning,
I think, they aren't in the repos. Furthermore I looked in synaptic and
found only the names of the packages with no other info. For the hell of
it I tried to mark one for installation and got

"Package libreoffice-core has no available version, but exists in the
database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list"

which brings up the question: from where did I install it? It must have
been in the Ubuntu repos at one time because I installed using "apt-get
install libreoffice". LO definitely isn't in my sources.list file.

Could it possibly mean that I don't know as much as I thought?
Naaaahhhh.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 check the price of the beer"
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