[nflug] adept issue

[Joe]

I've done a little CLI apt stuff, no problem.  I just don't have a clue
what to fix.

Joe

Cyber Source wrote:
> 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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