automatic update want to remove packages

[NoOp]

On 03/25/2011 04:39 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> I have a problem with update.
> I wanted to install libreoffice from the repositories but synaptic 
> wanted to remove my openoffice installation before it installed 
> libreoffice and I wanted to have both in parallel.
>   So I installed it directly from the site and that went without any 
> problem.
> Update showed then 2 problems.The first - not related to libreoffice - 
> is that it could only do a partial update because there were problems, 
> not specified, causing some updates not to be installed.
> The second, however, is worse because it would remove all openoffice 
> packages and some more for no apparent reason.
> Is Ubuntu now determining which packages I have on my system?
> Libreoffice runs apparently without a problem and openoffice also (I 
> haven't yet tried both together as that is maybe asking for trouble).
> Anybody know how to prevent this behaviour of update and synaptic?
> Joep
> 

Did you remove the repository from sources.list? That would be the only
thing that I can think of as I run multiple versions of OOo and LO at
the same time w/o issue:
$ locate versionrc
/opt/libreoffice/basis3.3/program/versionrc
/opt/libreoffice/program/versionrc
/opt/libreoffice/ure/bin/versionrc
/opt/ooo-dev/basis3.2/program/versionrc
/opt/ooo-dev/basis3.3/program/versionrc
/opt/ooo-dev/basis3.4/program/versionrc
/opt/ooo-dev/ure/bin/versionrc
/opt/ooo-dev3/program/versionrc
/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.2/program/versionrc
/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.3/program/versionrc
/opt/openoffice.org/ure/bin/versionrc
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/versionrc
/usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/versionrc
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/versionrc
/usr/lib/ure/bin/versionrc