removing OpenOffice

[John L Fjellstad]

Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> writes:

> Thanks Melvin but I really like KDE and the ease of updating that 
> kubuntu provides - I just don't want OpenOffice.
> If I try to remove openoffice.org then apt wants to remove most of the 
> KDE stuff, including kubuntu-desktop.
> I could remove kubuntu-desktop and then remove openoffice.org; but then 
> a 'dist-upgrade' would simply install them again - yes?
>
> Is there a way to have kubuntu without OpenOffice?

dist-upgrade will only upgrade installed packages that you have already
installed with their dependencies.

Say, you have a package A v1.  It depends on depA v1.  There is a new
version of package A. This depends on depA v2 and depB v1.  With a
aptitude upgrade, package A will not be installed because the dependency
requires it to install a new package (depB).  dist-upgrade will install
depB and upgrade package A and depA.

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