Installing dictionaries-common wants to remove OOo

[petrahele]

Hi,
I would like to localize my system in Czech so I wanted to install all necessary packages. However, when I wanted to install dictionaries common and also myspell, it wanted to completely remove Openoffice.

I have these repositories:
OOo is 3.1.1, repositories are ftp.cz.debian.org/debian, then also lenny backports - I made some screenshots:


http://www.jpeg.cz/view-640_zdroje01.png.html

third party software:

http://www.jpeg.cz/view-640_zdroje01.png.html

Someone told me that there is probably problem with versions and in repository is still only OOo 2.4 so it could be the reason. Is there any solution? I really need the spell checking and also the localization for my OOo.

thanks

[dbbolton]

The solution is to use the version of OpenOffice in the official repository.

[petrahele]

this is not possible for me as the OOo 2.4 version does not work correctly with the Orca screen-reader which is necessary for me.

I cannot understand why there is no 3.x version of OOo in official repository yet. The 2.4 is a little bit old.

[nadir]

http://packages.debian.org/search?suite ... office.org

[dbbolton]

dictionaries-common depends on only three packages: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/dictionaries-common

Lenny's myspell-cs has only one dependency with two options: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/myspell-cs-cz

Check the versions of these packagesavailable to your system using

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apt-cache policy packagename

Confer nadir's link above for the backported versions of OpenOffice. I also think you should paste the full aptitude output that you get when trying to install these packages. As a general rule, aptitude doesn't make bad decisions for no apparent reason.

[petrahele]

Ok,
I hope I understood it correctly. I used that commands in Terminator and got this for dictionaries common (I added english translations in "/"):

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dictionaries-common:
  Instalovaná verze: (žádná) /installed version (none)/
  Kandidát: 0.98.12 /candidate/
  Tabulka verzí: /table of versions/
     1.0.0~bpo50+1 0
          1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
     0.98.12 0
        500 http://ftp.cz.debian.org lenny/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
PSYCHO-HP550:/home/psychopetra#

and for myspell:

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PSYCHO-HP550:/home/psychopetra# apt-cache policy myspell-cs-cz
myspell-cs-cz:
  Instalovaná verze: (žádná)
  Kandidát: 20040229-4.1
  Tabulka verzí:
     20040229-4.1 0
        500 http://ftp.cz.debian.org lenny/main Packages
PSYCHO-HP550:/home/psychopetra# 

[petrahele]

I also think you should paste the full aptitude output that you get when trying to install these packages. As a general rule, aptitude doesn't make bad decisions for no apparent reason.

Excuse me, could you give me an advice how to do this? I am not so advanced user and in fact I only know that aptitude exists and that it can be used instead synaptic.

[craigevil]

OpenOffice 3.1 is in backports.

Package openoffice.org

* lenny (stable) (editors): OpenOffice.org Office suite
1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny6 [security]: amd64 armel i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
* lenny-backports (editors): full-featured office productivity suite
1:3.1.1-15+squeeze1~bpo50+1 [backports]: amd64 i386 powerpc s390
1:3.1.1-11~bpo50+1 [backports]: sparc
1:3.1.0-5~bpo50+2 [backports]: ia64
1:3.0.1-11~bpo50+2 [backports]: armel
* squeeze (testing) (editors): full-featured office productivity suite
1:3.1.1-16: amd64 i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
* sid (unstable) (editors): full-featured office productivity suite
1:3.2.0-2: amd64 i386 powerpc s390
1:3.1.1-16: ia64 mips mipsel sparc

[petrahele]

I already have OOo 3:

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 openoffice.org 1:3.1.1-1~bpo5 full-featured office productivity suite

Here are my repositories from /etc/apt/sources.list file

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#Vinux 2.0 CLI /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny/updates main

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/ lenny/volatile main
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/ lenny/volatile main

deb http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ stable main
deb-src http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/ stable main

deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free

deb http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/repository/ debian/

deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny-proposed-updates contrib non-free main
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny-proposed-updates contrib non-free main

Should I add or remove something?

[dbbolton]

I also think you should paste the full aptitude output that you get when trying to install these packages. As a general rule, aptitude doesn't make bad decisions for no apparent reason.

Excuse me, could you give me an advice how to do this? I am not so advanced user and in fact I only know that aptitude exists and that it can be used instead synaptic.

See the aptitude man page, specifically the install section.

[petrahele]

Ok,
so thanks to afixx I finally solved the problem.

He suggested me to use:

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apt-get -t lenny-backports install openoffice.org-l10n-cs

to install Czech locales in OOo

and:

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apt-get -t lenny-backports install openoffice.org-thesaurus-cs

then it was no problem to get myspell and other necessary things and also installing them via Synaptic was OK