Lucid office trap

[NoOp]

On 09/15/2011 01:50 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 15 September 2011 21:40, Ioannis Vranos <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you installed LibreOffice via Synaptic in Lucid, then you did so from
>>>> a ppa... right?
>>>>
>>> Yes.  Of course.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The easiest way for you to revert to the default OOo on 10.04 is
>>>> to purge the ppa.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Enable backports via Synaptic:
>>>> System|Administration|Synaptic...|Settings|Repositories|Updates|tick
>>>> 'Unsupported updates (lucid-backports)|Close. Then click the 'Reload'
>>>> button & in 'Quick Search' enter: ppa-purge. Install it & exit Synaptic.
>>>> 2. Purge the PPA:
>>>> $ sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa
>>>> [or the name of the ppa where you got libreoffice from]
>>>> That should purge the ppa & reinstall your original Ubuntu OOo.
>>>>
>>>> Now install the remainder of OpenOffice.org (note: Ubuntu leaves out key
>>>> portions in it's basic install:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I have a set of old selections lists, so I should be able to figure
>>> out
>>> what portions I used to have.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> $ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
>>>
>>> Thanks.  This looks workable, but I'll wait a bit
>>>   1. As long as I have LO loaded I'll try it for a while.
>>>   2. I might like it well enough to keep LO.
>>>   3. I'll avoid synaptic dependency hell, or the threat of it, as long as
>>
>>
>> There is an easier way to remove PPA.
>>
>>
>> In Synaptic, go to Settings->Repositories->Other Software, and remove
>> the repository (the PPA) you want.
> 
> Does that do all that ppa-purge does?  Uninstalling the ppa packages
> and restoring the originals?
> 
> Colin
> 

No. ppa-purge is a set of scripts that purges the ppa and reinstalls
what the ppa replaced.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid-backports/ppa-purge
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ppa-purge