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System freeze using Open Office programs.

Asked by Myroslav

I am using ubuntu 8.04. Everything was going well with Open Office programs until this morning. I received notification of an update and opened Update Manager. I then received a notification that not all updates could be installed. These uninstallable updates were all for Open Office. I installed what I could and then went to Synaptic Package Manager and choosing "Mark all Upgrades", installed the Open Office upgrades. At the same time, however, certain other packages were removed. There are some things I can do with Open Office but other things (like right clicking on a file) cause the system to freeze.

Does anyone have an idea about how to fix this?

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Best Knut Karevoll (gnonthgol) said : 		#1

You have the proposed updates enabled. You can set this in Software Sources->Updates.
This morning hardy-proposed pushed an unstable version of openoffice. This did not involve the language packages witch were uninstalled when you upgraded openoffice.
But for you my friend, you can force a version in synaptic. Just force all affected openoffice packages to the last version and you will be fine. I hope the new version will be stable soon.

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Myroslav (mgalan) said : 		#2

I am just a normal user. Is it better, in general, to disable proposed updates and wait for stable distributions from other software sources?

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Myroslav (mgalan) said : 		#3

Thanks Knut Karevoll, that solved my question.