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Error Installing WPS Office

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Error Installing WPS Office

#1 Post by michaellanfield »

Hi. I am a newbie to Debian. Having issues with 2 things related to installing WPS Office. I know I can use libreoffice and openoffice, but there are reason why I enjoy WPS over the other two, which I won;t go into detail.

I download the official WPS Deb package for my Debian 11 Bullseye LXQt system, using both the gdebi and command line.

what I did.

1. I installed the WPS package on the website wps.com
2. I right clicked and installed with gdebi, and got an error software index is broken. I tried doing what they recommended without any solution,
3. So I tried command line option. I have the WPS deb file located on my desktop.
rms@hp-pavilion:~/Desktop$ sudo aptitude install wps-office_11.1.0.10976.XA_amd64.deb
and I get this error

Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "wps-office_11.1.0.10976.XA_amd64.deb"
Unable to apply some actions, aborting

What can I do to solve these 2 errors and install WPS on my system? I haven't found any solution online for my particular case. Thank you.

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Re: Error Installing WPS Office

#2 Post by sunrat »

Open a terminal in the directory containing the .deb then

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apt install ./wps-office_11.1.0.10976.XA_amd64.deb
If it gives that software index error again, do

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apt update
If that doesn't fix it, you have more serious issues. It would have helped to post exactly what message gdebi returned.
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Re: Error Installing WPS Office

#3 Post by michaellanfield »

Thank you sunrat, will try that shortly when I get to my computer. I'll try to post the error message of gdebi, but wasn't able to select and copy the text. Maybe I'm able to submit a screenshot here?

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#4 Post by michaellanfield »

It seems like WPS installed correctly with that command line code that you gave me, and I really thank you for the help. But for some reason I wasn't able to replicate the error again with gdebi.

I just don't understand, with the command line code that I used to install WPS, why that didn't work, and gave me back an error message?
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michaellanfield wrote: 2022-05-21 21:28I just don't understand, with the command line code that I used to install WPS, why that didn't work, and gave me back an error message?
The apt command requires the path to be specified for a local .deb install, either full path or "./" prefix to denote the current working directory. Otherwise it thinks you want to install from the repositories.
I guess aptitude is the same.
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Re: Error Installing WPS Office

#6 Post by michaellanfield »

Thank you so much sunrat

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