Could not determine the upgrade [SOLVED]

[R Kimber]

On Mon, 2 May 2011 14:27:16 +0100
R Kimber wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:59:24 +0100
> R Kimber wrote:
> 
> > That's not a problem, but I will wait perhaps 'till Sunday before trying
> > again. I guess I assumed that the mirrors were OK when the launch was
> > announced.
> 
> I tried again today, but got the same error, so my two questions remain

This is due to a bug in which the installer tried to replace OpenOffice
with LibreOffice but failed because libreoffice-dmaths
is not installable for some reason.

I seems to me that's it's a really poor piece of design that a whole
upgrade fails because it can't install a package that I might not want. I
don't see why I couldn't have been asked whether I wanted to keep my
existing OpenOffice.  If necessary, it could surely have installed
LibreOffice as a separate exercise, regardless of OpenOffice and its
configuration.

The fix is to remove openoffice.org-dmaths, pending a new package
openoffice.org 1:3.3.0-7ubuntu2

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
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