[plug] Dist-upgrade on Sid

[l anderson]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:51:23 +0800
Timothy White <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try to remove the packages causing the conflicts, keep a note of them,
> and reinstall them later.
> 
> So I would try
> apt-get --purge remove openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin
> openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en
> openoffice.org-l10n-1.1.4
> And basically, as you do that, keep listing packages that are stopping
> it from being removed. (Before you list a package, I hope you have
> sense to check what it is, so you don't remove core stuff! In this
> case, they should just OpenOffice packages)
> 
> When you come to reinstalling them. You'll want to pull in as few
> packages as possible, so not try and reinstall that whole list, just
> the key ones, that depend on the required packages. For example just
> openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin, of course, if you want, try and
> bring in openoffice.org2 packages ;-)
> 
> Hope that helps
> 
> Tim
> --
> Linux Counter user #273956
>
Tim,

Thank's
What Nick had said was correct but the system wasn't happy for what ever reason.

What you suggested at first didn't work but by manipulating the order of the files I
finally had success.

Thank's Nick and Tim