Lucid office trap

[NoOp]

On 09/16/2011 08:21 AM, NoOp wrote:
> On 09/16/2011 01:15 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 16 September 2011 01:02, NoOp <snipped> wrote:
>>>
>>> Have you actually tried this?
>>>
>> 
>> I use this method for removing randomly installed PPA stuff all the time.
>> 
>> Also useful is 'apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^' (note the caret)
>> which should put back stuff that may have been removed by later
>> package manipulation.
>> 
>> Al.
>> 
> 
> Thanks. I'll give it a try  today.

Well done Popey!

To recap; I followed your advise & it worked well -thanks!

1. Reinstalled the libreoffice ppa:
$ sudo apt-add repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
and ensured it was enabled then 'sudo apt-get update'.

2. Then installed libreoffice & tested to make sure it was working

3. Then I purged the ppa:
$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa
Note: that fails to remove all of the files installed by the ppa:
The following packages are BROKEN:
  libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc
  libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw
  libreoffice-filter-binfilter libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-math
  libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-writer
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  python-uno ttf-opensymbol uno-libs3 ure
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openoffice.org-common{a} openoffice.org-core{a}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 4 downgraded, 0 to remove and 1
not upgraded.
Need to get 51.3MB of archives. After unpacking 174MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
etc., etc.

So it's still a mess.

4. Then following Alan's advise:
$ sudo apt-get autoremove libreoffice
- that cleaned up the mess.
$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^
...
The following extra packages will be installed:
  openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
  openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-help-en-us
  openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer
  python-uno uno-libs3 ure
Suggested packages:
  openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-style-industrial
  openoffice.org-style-hicontrast openoffice.org-style-tango
  openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-style-oxygen bsh
  openoffice.org-gcj openoffice.org-filter-binfilter cli-uno-bridge
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
  openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-help-en-us
  openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer
  python-uno uno-libs3 ure
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 65.9MB/66.5MB of archives.
After this operation, 238MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
...

5. That last of course installed only the basic OpenOffice & you still
need to:
$ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
in order to get some of the more important bits of OOo like Base, Draw,
Impress etc:
$ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libhsqldb-java libservlet2.5-java openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc
  openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-filter-binfilter
  openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-impress
  openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-report-builder-bin ttf-dejavu
  ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-sil-gentium ttf-sil-gentium-basic
Suggested packages:
  libhsqldb-java-doc libhsqldb-java-gcj openoffice.org-l10n-3.2 menu
  openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-kde openclipart-openoffice.org
pstoedit
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
  libmyodbc odbc-postgresql libsqliteodbc tdsodbc mdbtools libmysql-java
  libpg-java libjtds-java openoffice.org-gcj openoffice.org-report-builder
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libhsqldb-java libservlet2.5-java openoffice.org openoffice.org-base
  openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-filter-binfilter
  openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-impress
  openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-report-builder-bin ttf-dejavu
  ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-sil-gentium ttf-sil-gentium-basic
0 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.0MB/22.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 76.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Add a few more like help, dictionaries, etc., and it's back to normal &
LO from the ppa is gone.

6. I'd also purged my standard LO (installed to /opt) so that I could
ensure that the ppa version was the only version on the system. So now I
put the standard version back & can now run OOo _and_ LO (multiple LO
versions in fact by modifying the 'bootstraprc' file to create separate
LO profiles) at the same time for comparison.

End result is that I definately like Alan's method better & stand
corrected. Thanks again Alan.