Russ Cook wrote: > Perhaps it *is *user error, but I took no explicit action to remove any > modules, and the Open Office > did work previously. It was my understanding that apt-get upgrade never > removes packages, so
But dist-upgrade does. > I thought perhaps there was a disconnect in the package structure of > openoffice for Sid. Yep, there was, it was uninstallable for a bit of time. > Is there a metapackage that will reinstall all basic functionality of > the openoffice suite (writer, > spreadsheet, presentation) or must I now research the missing components > and manually install? man apt-cache? (apt-get install openoffice.org) > I was under the (mis)understanding that running apt-get install install > openoffice.org would do > this, but it does not (for me). It does. (assuming you really don't have -writer installed). > Maybe it's just one of the joys an unsophisticated Debian user should > expect when running the > unstable distribution. I rarely have problems like this. Jup. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [email protected] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

