[nflug] adept issue

[Joe]

Cyber Source wrote:
> you can start with "apt-get -f install", if you have any problems,
> that will expose them.
>
> Joe wrote:
>> 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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OK.   Did that (see below).  Doesn't refer to the packages in question
at all.

sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for bigbird:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libwpg-0.1-1 libservlet2.4-java libsvg1 libxine1-gnome libhsqldb-java
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
bigbird at sananda:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libwpg-0.1-1 libservlet2.4-java libsvg1 libxine1-gnome libhsqldb-java
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libhsqldb-java libservlet2.4-java libsvg1 libwpg-0.1-1 libxine1-gnome
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 1855kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 175258 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libhsqldb-java ...
Removing libservlet2.4-java ...
Removing libsvg1 ...
Removing libwpg-0.1-1 ...
Removing libxine1-gnome ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
bigbird at sananda:~$