[SOLVED] LibreOffice upgrade problem question (pinning)

feeblebrain · 12-03-2011, 03:33 PM

Hello,

I just did a full update/upgrade to my Debian/Wheezy/Xfce installation, and the upgrade stopped halfway through upon encountering a problem. I eventually solved the problem by first isolating which package was in error by doing first;

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dpkg -C

...to get a list of packages that still needed configuring, and manually configuring each of them through...

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dpkg --configure each_package_name

...until I isolated that the bugbear package was:

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libreoffice-help-en-us

I attempted using;

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apt-get install -f

...to obtain missing dependencies, and got some results. After restarting the computer, a manual...

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apt-get install libreoffice-help-en-us

...appeared to solve the problem, and a fresh update/dist-upgrade revealed no new packages pending installation.

However, looking through some of the bug reports, I notice that this particular package HAS caused problems to other users previously. I am actually quite content with the current version of LibreOffice, and do not really want to upgrade it anymore, but before I go pinning it, I wanted to ask the following;

FIRST;
Inputting...

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libreoffice --version

...in terminal gives me the following output...

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LibreOffice 3.4  340m1(Build:402)

Is this the complete detail of the version (340m1) I would use when pinning LibreOffice?

SECOND;
Would I have to pin each and every package of LibreOffice to ensure that the whole package does not upgrade? Here's the dpkg --get-selections output concerning libreoffice...

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libreoffice					install
libreoffice-base				install
libreoffice-base-core				install
libreoffice-calc				install
libreoffice-common				install
libreoffice-core				install
libreoffice-draw				install
libreoffice-emailmerge				install
libreoffice-filter-binfilter			install
libreoffice-filter-mobiledev			install
libreoffice-gtk					install
libreoffice-help-en-us				install
libreoffice-impress				install
libreoffice-java-common				install
libreoffice-math				install
libreoffice-officebean				install
libreoffice-report-builder-bin			install
libreoffice-style-galaxy			install
libreoffice-style-tango				install
libreoffice-writer				install

THIRD;
Would pinning LibreOffice result in any other problems? By this I mean, would or could subsequent upgrades alter the dependencies of the pinned version of LibreOffice and render it possibly unusable?

I hope I have been clear with my query. Many thanks in advance for any advice on this...

craigevil · 12-03-2011, 03:52 PM

Easier to just hold the packages.

as root echo libreoffice hold|dpkg --set-selections

Probably a good idea to hold libreoffice, libreoffice-base, libreoffice-core, libreoffice-base-core.

feeblebrain · 12-03-2011, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by craigevil

Easier to just hold the packages.

as root echo libreoffice hold|dpkg --set-selections

Probably a good idea to hold libreoffice, libreoffice-base, libreoffice-core, libreoffice-base-core.

That's even better advice. Thanks!

widget · 12-03-2011, 07:13 PM

Also if you had the package "apt-listbugs" installed you would have gotten a bug warning and an option to not install the packages.

I think it is really great to have. Won't catch everything, they do have to have been reported, but it saves a lot of grief.

feeblebrain · 12-04-2011, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by widget

Also if you had the package "apt-listbugs" installed you would have gotten a bug warning and an option to not install the packages.

I think it is really great to have. Won't catch everything, they do have to have been reported, but it saves a lot of grief.

And that too, thanks!