I've always found the following helps with broken packages on a Debian based system.
apt-get -f install You can do man apt-get for more info. -- David -----Original Message----- From: Michael Ewan <michaelewa...@gmail.com> Reply-To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@pdxlinux.org> To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@pdxlinux.org> Cc: PLUG <p...@lists.pdxlinux.org> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu messed up LO! Date: 06/26/2023 05:21:09 PM Synaptic, Apt, or whatever all use dpkg under the covers. Do 'dpkg --list' to see what is installed. Make a list of things you want to remove, i.e. 'dpkg --list | grep 'somepattern' > files.txt Then use 'dpkg deinstall' or 'dpkg -r' for each package you want to remove, you can gang them up on the command line if there are just a few. There are various --force-[something] options if you run into trouble with dependencies or broken packages. On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 2:07 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > 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! >
