[Bug 848492] Re: I cannot install libreoffice

[Bela Lubkin]

$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice -core -- will tell you it requires libreoffice-common >= 1:3.4.3
$ sudo apt-get install -s libreoffice-common  -- might actually install (I'm not sure, thus the -s "dry-run" flag), but it will install version 1:3..4.2.

There's a build problem or something; the package libreoffice-common 3.4.3 hasn't been issued.
Since the rest of the libreoffice packages depend on it, you can't install them.

(This is what I'm seeing on oneiric with all internal repositories
enabled (updates, proposed etc.) but without libreoffice PPA)

I seem to have a coherent set of libreoffice installed, all at  version
3.4.2-2ubuntu3.  You might try forcing that version.

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Title:
  I cannot install libreoffice

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:

  1) Start synaptic
  2) Type libreoffice in the search box.
  3) right-click on libreoffice and select the install option
  4) click the Mark button on the "Mark additional required changes" dialog.
  5) you receive the following error:

  The following packages have unresovable dependencies.

  libreoffice:
   Depends: libreoffice-core but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: libreoffice-writer but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: libreoffice-calc but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: libreoffice-impress but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: libreoffice-draw but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: libreoffice-math but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: libreoffice-base but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: libreoffice-report-builder-bin but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: libreoffice-filter-mobiledev but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: libreoffice-java-common but it is not going to be installed

  I had previously installed the ppa:libreoffice/ppa PPA using the
  commands:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:user/ppa-name
  sudo apt-get update

  They ran with no errors.

  I then tried to install libreoffice using apt-get:

  tim at Timbuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice
  Reading 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:
   libreoffice : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:3.4.3-1ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libreoffice-writer but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libreoffice-calc but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libreoffice-impress but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libreoffice-draw but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libreoffice-math but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libreoffice-base but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libreoffice-report-builder-bin but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libreoffice-filter-mobiledev but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libreoffice-java-common (>= 1:3.4.3~) but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

  Synaptic tells me I have no broken packages.

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