What are virtual packages?

[Colin Law]

On 9 September 2014 15:14, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> ...
> I get the same result for apt-cache policy. See my question about it being
> built in above.  Is it possible that uno is providing it?

Looking at the link you supplied and the explanation from Tom, it
appears that you need python-uno or python3-uno, so as long as one of
those is installed you should be ok.

>
> I ask because I am trying to run some python dialog demos in libreoffice.
> The ones written entirely in python run ok.  It is also supposed to be
> possible to run dialogs built in the libreoffice basic IDE in python
> scripts.  These are the one that give an error message.
>
> The error message does not point to the script itself, but seems to be
> coming from python itself. This is why I was trying to see if I was missing
> something that needed to be installed. The only way I have found to see
> errors in this case is to display them in a message box so I can't cut and
> paste the error here.  If need be I can type it in here if necessary.

Sorry I can't help with that as I have no experience in that area.
Someone else?

Colin