Comments on: PPA For OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 For Hardy/Intrepid

By: Adam Stovicek

Adam Stovicek — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:39:07 +0000

Well… that certainly makes this post null and void, now.

They haven’t only removed Hardy but also the Intrepid packages as well. The PPA is currently for only Jaunty to install OpenOffice.org 3.1.1.

By: Giacomo

Giacomo — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:10:02 +0000

Looks like the Hardy packages have been removed…? That repo now contains packages for jaunty only…

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Kim's Eclectic Musings: Work in Progress — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:22:46 +0000

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By: Adam Stovicek

Adam Stovicek — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:00:39 +0000

There was just an update today that seems to have fixed the availability of help. Before today, I would get the same issue with 3.1 on my Jaunty installations that both Barry Klein and David Cowell were describing in spite of having the help package installed.

The Update Manager had all of the installed OO.o 3.1 packages listed for update. After the update, the help was working again.

If you’re not sure if the help package(s) are installed, open the Synaptic Package Manager, click on the Origin button at the bottom left, you’ll see a list above that of your active repositories. There should be an entry for ppa.launchpad.net/main that when highlighted will show all of the available packages from that repository in the main window. If you scroll down, you’ll see all of the openoffice.org-help- packages for 3.1.x. Find the package for your language and mark it for installation if it isn’t.

By: David Cowell

David Cowell — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:58:34 +0000

Re: Barry Klein’s observation about “Help” not being available on ppa 3.1.0:

1) Is there any plan to add “Help” down the road?

2) I actually preferred 3.0 (I love help screens, especially when I’m trying to teach new users)… but there’s no way to revert to it. Are there any plans to add the 3.0 back onto the ppa repository?

By: Barry Klein

Barry Klein — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:13:08 +0000

NOTE: The ppa repository for OpenOffice.org does not have any help, so when you try to use help (e.g. press F1), you’ll get an error message.

By: Adam Stovicek

Adam Stovicek — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:08:09 +0000

It took my a good three hours from installing a base hardy system in which to try and reproduce the problem that Tony Land is experiencing. I finally came across the "partial upgrade" problem and it deals with the PPA packages not being able to pull a handful of hardy packages from the universe repository. Open the Software Sources window and make sure that Community-maintained Open Source software (universe) is enabled from the Ubuntu Software tab.

By: Tony Land

Tony Land — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:11:27 +0000

Thanks for the help.

Just to complete the knowledge base:

I tried the first suggestion: sudo apt-get install openoffice.org

The result is as below:

/home/tonyland/Documents/orgterminal
tonyland@tonyland-dell-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
[sudo] password for tonyland:
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-base but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-calc but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.0.1-7ubuntu1~hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-draw but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-impress but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-math but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-officebean but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-report-builder-bin but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-writer but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-writer2latex but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
tonyland@tonyland-dell-laptop:~$

Your second suggestion did reinstall OpenOffice 2 which I will continue to use.

I guess the moral is “If it aint broke don’t fix it!

Again many thanks

By: Adam Stovicek

Adam Stovicek — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:53:40 +0000

Open a terminal window and at the command line issue
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
Or set openoffice.org to install from Synaptic.

I’m guessing that the openoffice.org-base-core was responsible for removing the other 2.4.x files. Now that they’re gone, the openoffice.org metapackage should retrieve the remaining 3.0.x packages.

If all else fails, you can still get 2.4.x back from the Hardy repos. Disable the PPA repository from the Software Sources > Third-Party Software tab, then issue the following at the command line:

sudo apt-get purge openoffice.org* && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install openoffice.org

That should first remove any remaining 3.0.x openoffice.org packages, then update your local apt cache, and finally install the 2.4.x openoffice.org packages from the Hardy repos.

By: Tony Land

Tony Land — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:07:51 +0000

Following my last comment:
I am using Ubuntu Hardy
When I run update manager it indicates that there is an update

Other Updates
openoffice.org office suite–libdba (size:548 KB)

This update is in light gray and is cannot be installed

Synaptic Package manager shows
Openoffice.org-base-core
Installed Version 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
Latest Version 1:3.0.1-7ubuntu~hardy1

It does not appear possible to install the update.
Let me know if you need to have more information