On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:29:02 -0800 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > 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.
I don't know why, but some posts to this lists are taking several days to appear. You wrote that on 2/13 and it just appeared late on 2/17. In the meantime I successfully removed 2.0.4, installed 2.1, discovered that it was a mess, uninstalled it, then discovered I still had remnants of 2.1, 2.0.4, 2.0.2 and even 1.1 on this computer. I spent an hour searching the hard disk and deleting all of them, then reinstalled 2.0.4. It is now functioning as before -- that is, everything works except the problem with drag and drop of text and the problem with some settings in Tools > Options not being saved to the default template both remain. I just checked in Synaptic, and Ubuntu-Desktop was not installed. I checked the list of dependencies and it is as long as my arm! I marked it for installation and it not only wanted to install a dozen things that I didn't have any use for, but it also wanted to uninstall oooqs (the quickstarter) and install instead openoffice.org-gnome. I installed in in the hope that doing so might fix the other problems. Sadly, it made no difference at all. :( Oh well. Thanks for the suggestion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
