[nflug] adept issue

[Cyber Source]

First I would recommend getting down to cli and fix your 
apt-get/repos/packages issues. As far as what things want to get updated 
when there installed, that's gonna be a little tricky as packages are 
all linked with dependencies and those dependencies may require the 
other installed packages to be updated. Restrictions based on security 
and other ways of restriction are much easier.

Joe wrote:
> I am running kubuntu gutsy.  I uninstalled the version of Open Office (a
> bunch of packages) that came with gutsy.
> I downloaded the latest version from Open Office and ran the rpm's
> through alien -c so I got all the install scripts as well.  I then
> installed all the debs using dpkg and everything worked fine after a few
> issues of making sure all the old stuff was gone.
>
> Immediately, the adept notifier popped up in my panel.  I says updates
> are available and upon checking them, I found that it thinks going
> backwards from version 2.3.1 to 2.3.0 is an upgrade.
>
> I went into aptitude and set all the OOo packages on hold so they
> wouldn't get upgraded by accident.  I thought that might make the
> problem go away, but it didn't seem to change anything.
>
> I like using the notifier to keep up to date, but now it shows up always
> and if I want to use it, I have to manually cancel all the OOo related
> changes every time.
>
> Previously, I tried installing OOo manually under /opt without using
> dpkg, etc.  It installed, but it wasn't pretty.  OOo writer (the
> application I use the most) wouldn't install and the only way I could
> launch OOo was by clicking on a file in konqueror and then I got some
> sort of read-only viewers.  My shortcuts to run OOo failed weirdly.  So
> my install was very flawed somehow - presumably in the system
> integration department.
>
> Any suggestions on how to correct this problem would be appreciated.
>
> I like to keep OOo, Firefox, and Thunderbird at the latest greatest
> stable releases and not wait for them to be ported.
>
> TIA
>
> Joe
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