Jeez, I gotta get something working or run to borrow another lappy now. Got translations to do. Don’t want to remove Libre if there’s a simple fix possible. A little afraid it will leave remnants behind that may screw up subsequent installations.
You could try purging the LibreOffice PPA’s you have added … then go back to the original version of LibreOffice from the 10.04 repositories.
How?? Is that Libre link i sent good for that- they don’t say anything about working on different versions.
Which link ?
What’s the output from:
for APT in `find /etc/apt/ -name *.list`; do grep -o "^deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/[a-z0-9\-]\+/[a-z0-9\-]\+" $APT | while read ENTRY ; do USER=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f4` PPA=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f5` ; echo ppa:$USER/$PPA ; done ; done
(that will list active PPA’s on your system)
and
dpkg -l | grep libre
Well tried to purge libreoffice- said I don’t have it installed. Removed libre-writer. Tried installing openoffice.org-writer, got this:
Oh, gotta add that PPA- that gets purged too?
root@mak4-laptop:/home/mako4# apt-get install openoffice.org-writer
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openoffice.org-writer: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-base-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.4) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: openoffice.org-emailmerge but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: openoffice.org-math but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
Output from first command:
cho ppa:$USER/$PPA ; done ; done
ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
ppa:tualatrix/ppa
ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-0
ppa:libreoffice/ppa
ppa:anonbeat/guayadeque
OUTPUT GREP:
ii libdjvulibre-text 3.5.22-1ubuntu4.1 Linguistic support files for libdjvulibre
ii libdjvulibre21 3.5.22-1ubuntu4.1 Runtime support for the DjVu image format
ii libreadline5 5.2-7build1 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries
ii libreadline6 6.1-1 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries
ii libreoffice-base 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – database
ii libreoffice-base-core 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – shared library
ii libreoffice-calc 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – spreadsheet
ii libreoffice-common 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – arch-independent files
ii libreoffice-core 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – arch-dependent files
ii libreoffice-draw 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – drawing
ii libreoffice-filter-mobiledev 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – mobile devices filters
ii libreoffice-impress 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – presentation
ii libreoffice-java-common 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – arch-independent Java support
rc libreoffice-math 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – equation editor
ii libreoffice-report-builder-bin 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 LibreOffice extension for building database reports – lib
ii libreoffice-style-galaxy 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – Galaxy (Default) symbol style
Before we go any further … are you planning on digging the hole any deeper, or waiting for instructions ?
It would be pointless me attempting to give you instructions whilst you keep trying things on your own that will inevitably change the instructions I’d have to give you.
Now I’m waiting
OK, let’s start by removing LibreOffice:
sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
then
sudo apt-get clean
then
sudo apt-get autoremove
then post the output from:
sudo find ~/ -name libreoffice
Sorry, went out. Billionaire wanted something done now (or his flunkies). OK - removed all that stuff. And get no output when looking for any libre office names. So * means all files with that name? Why would it say “Libre Office not installed” when trying to remove? Cause it was just removing and looking for main program, not all ancillary stuff?
Hope you’re still there. Please give me instructions for installing Open Office too, though guess I removed depositories.
What’s the output from:
dpkg -l | grep libreoffice
Only this:
rc libreoffice-math 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu1~lucid1 office productivity suite – equation editor
OK, let’s get rid of OpenOffice too for now …
Run:
sudo apt-get remove --purge openoffice.org*
then post the output from:
dpkg -l | grep openoffice
OK. Removed 2 things. No output from GREP
run:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
then
sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa
then post the output from:
for APT in `find /etc/apt/ -name *.list`; do grep -o "^deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/[a-z0-9\-]\+/[a-z0-9\-]\+" $APT | while read ENTRY ; do USER=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f4` PPA=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f5` ; echo ppa:$USER/$PPA ; done ; done
Will that purge all ppa’s so I can’t update opera or other things??
No … it will only purge the libreoffice PPA that DOESSN’T contain a version for 10.04
when try to remove Libre PPA:
PPA to be removed: libreoffice ppa
Warning: Could not find package list for PPA: libreoffice ppa
This is 2nd OUTPUT from infinite string: Its still there.
ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
ppa:tualatrix/ppa
ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-0
ppa:libreoffice/ppa
ppa:anonbeat/guayadeque
OK, fire up Synaptic
go to Settings>Repositories>Other Software (tab)
Find the line similar to
Index of /libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu lucid main
and remove it
if present also remove
Index of /libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu lucid (Source Code)
Close synaptic … and post the output from
for APT in `find /etc/apt/ -name *.list`; do grep -o "^deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/[a-z0-9\-]\+/[a-z0-9\-]\+" $APT | while read ENTRY ; do USER=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f4` PPA=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f5` ; echo ppa:$USER/$PPA ; done ; done
again
If I highlight it, will it only remove that one or ALL the depositories that are checked? Figure checked means installed so afraid to uncheck them
checked means ACTIVE
Yes it will only remove the one that’s highlighted
OK done, no source.
OUTPUT:
ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
ppa:tualatrix/ppa
ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-0
ppa:anonbeat/guayadeque