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Uninstalled OpenOffice inadvertently. Want to reinstall, But!

Asked by Harold Heinbaugh

I am trying to reinstall OpenOffice and when I try to select the programs to reinstall I am getting the error explanation below. How can I get to programs to load? thank you for your help

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-writer but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-calc but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-impress but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-draw but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-math but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-base 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-officebean but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: openoffice.org-filter-binfilter but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) said : 		#1

Try adding all those packages to the apt-get install line manually:

apt-get install openoffice.org openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-report-builder-bin openoffice.org-officebean

If this fails, try re-running apt-get update immediately before apt-get install.

If it still fails after that, then your package database is stuck somewhere unpleasant :) and hopefully someone else will know how to unwedge it -- and they will probably need the output of:

dpkg -l openoffice.org openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-report-builder-bin openoffice.org-officebean

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Harold Heinbaugh (hheinbaugh2) said : 		#2

On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 11:57 +0000, Seth Arnold wrote:

> Your question #101406 on yelp in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+question/101406
>
> Seth Arnold posted a new comment:
> Try adding all those packages to the apt-get install line manually:
>
> apt-get install openoffice.org openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-writer
> openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-draw
> openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-report-builder-
> bin openoffice.org-officebean
>
> If this fails, try re-running apt-get update immediately before apt-get
> install.
>
> If it still fails after that, then your package database is stuck
> somewhere unpleasant :) and hopefully someone else will know how to
> unwedge it -- and they will probably need the output of:
>
> dpkg -l openoffice.org openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-writer
> openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-draw
> openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-report-builder-
> bin openoffice.org-officebean
>
> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll try that.

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Harold Heinbaugh (hheinbaugh2) said : 		#3

On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 11:57 +0000, Seth Arnold wrote:

> apt-get install openoffice.org openoffice.org-core
> openoffice.org-writer
> openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-draw
> openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-report-builder-
> bin openoffice.org-officebean

Hello Seth,

some progress with following results:

sudo apt-get update
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 9.10 _Karmic Koala_ - Release i386 (20091028.5)
karmic/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 9.10 _Karmic Koala_ - Release i386 (20091028.5)
karmic/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic
Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main
Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic
Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main
Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic
Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com karmic
Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com karmic/partner
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/restricted
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/universe
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/multiverse
Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security
Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic
Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com karmic
Release
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse
Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe
Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
Hit http://archive.canonical.com karmic/partner Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Packages
Reading package lists... Done
harold@harold-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-writerReading 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openoffice.org-core: Depends: librdf0 (>= 1.0.9) but it is not going
to be installed
E: Broken packages
harold@harold-laptop:~$ openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-impress
openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-calc: command not found
harold@harold-laptop:~$ openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-report-builder-
openoffice.org-math: command not found
harold@harold-laptop:~$ bin openoffice.org-officebean
No command 'bin' found, did you mean:
Command 'bib' from package 'sixpack-bibtex' (universe)
Command 'bip' from package 'bip' (universe)
Command 'win' from package 'wily' (universe)
Command 'tin' from package 'tin' (universe)
Command 'bing' from package 'bing' (universe)
Command 'bins' from package 'bins' (universe)
bin: command not found

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Budmaester

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#4

I would try installing OpenOffice 3.2, according to the instructions here: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-openoffice-3-2-in-ubuntu.html

It is installed from a .deb and cleans out previous versions with the command: sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*

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