I had LO downloaded from LO (not the Ubuntu repositories) and installed on my Xubuntu 22.04 laptop. Today I decided to do a system update, using the Update Manager utility. When the Update Manager finished sniffing the internet and my computer it came up with over 250 packages that needed to be updated. I scanned through the list and saw a lot of LO packages, so I painstakingly went through the entire list and deselected all the LO packages. If I had not done so, I reasoned, the updates would overwrite my installed non-Ubuntu version. When I finished I clicked the button to start the update.
As I watched the progress, imagine my horror as LO packages displayed as being installed. WTH? I don't know how this happened, but I figured the thing to do was let the update finish, reboot, and then open Synaptic package manager, select all the LO packages and mark them to be deleted, then click on Synaptic's Apply button to finish the task. My plan was to get rid of god only knows what mess was installed after the update, then download the current latest from LO and install it. Sadly, this failed. Synaptic said it couldn't delete the packages because I had 'broken' packages that needed to be fixed. Guess which packages were broken? Yup, you guessed it - every one of the LO packages that I was trying to uninstall. Just for kicks and giggles, before further attempts to resolve the problems, I decided to see what would happen if I tried to launch Writer, the only package I really use. Amazingly a Writer window opened, ready to start writing. The only problem was that my floating toolbar for formatting was missing, but that is easily fixed. Questions: 1) I had 7.3.7.2 (that's what it says in Writer's Help - About). If I download and install 7.4.7 or 7.5.4 (the latest from LO), will it overwrite all the messed up packages? Or will it fail to complete the installation and leave me with an even bigger mess? 2) What would be a command line tool to fix the broken pages? I'd settle for just uninstalling them. After all, they're going to be replaced anyway. Observations and suggestions welcome!
