John Jason Jordan wrote: > I am trying to fix a problem where drag and drop of text does not work. > To do so I want to uninstall OOo, then reinstall. But something weird > is going on. There are lots of OOo packages listed in Synaptic as > installed. I can select all of them and mark for removal, but when I > click on Apply I get various error messages. The most common is "fix > broken packages first." Each time I tell Synaptic to fix the broken > packages, it announces that it has done so, but the errors continue. I > seem to be unable to uninstall it. Right there, that tells me that > there is something wrong with the installation, but until I can > uninstall it I don't know how to fix it. > > I'd like to compare my list of installed packages with those of someone > else whose OOo is functioning properly. Could someone using OOo 2.04 on > Edgy amd64 tell me which OOo packages are listed as installed in > Synaptic? Thanks!
I believe that this is due to the "ubuntu-desktop" meta package. In synaptics do a search for ubuntu-desktop, right click on it and look at the properties to see all of the dependencies. In order to completely uninstall OOo you'll need to uninstall this package first (sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop). Be aware that it will uninstall Thunderbird if you have that installed - don't know why, but make backups of your mozilla & evolution directories before you uninstall. 2.1 will then install properly, including the Gnome application menu & icons. Note: you can always reinstall the ubuntu-desktop later if you want to. After removal, I then reinstall whatever I want back. All of my systems have ubuntu-desktop removed & all work just fine without it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
