Update insists on replacing Open Office. Please change your update to allow me to keep Open Office!

The regular updates that I recieve almost daily insist upon replacing Open Office with Libre Office. I have been using Open Office for years, since Sun Microsystems made it available for free, and before I began using Ubuntu. I have plenty of disk space and if you INSIST upon using an update script which wants to install Libre Offi ce, please at least have the dec enecy to leave my Open Office alone! Just because I use canonical's version of Lin ux does not mean that I will be forced into using the software that you choose.

I write for a living and Open Office has seen me through countless short stories and five novels. I am comfortable with it and I will make the change, if I feel that I wish to, AT A TIME OF MY CHOOSING! This issue, In fact, is the only reaqson that I have not updated to Natty Narwahl, which seems to in other ways be quite superior.

I have been a Linux user since downloading Kernel 0.93 in January 1994, so I probably am at it longer than most opf your developers, through Yggdrasil Linux, Red Hat when it was benig sold door to door by its srtudent developers at UNC, and countless other varieties, as well as being a retired RTE_A, HP-UX. IRIX, Ultrix and Trju64 system administrator. Idiot-proof, though your intallation and maintenance programs are, I am asking you to have some consideration for those of us who, unlike converting Windows users, do not swing from trees by ourt tails and peel bananas with our feet. Please add a few lines of code to your update scripts to allow me to opt in or out of specific updates, or perhaps even better, to provide a wat to produce a local file in /etc which enumerates software package which the update program is fornbidden to touch.

Thanks for your help.

Ed Lukacs