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[Solved] Cannot Meet Dependencies
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 1:21 pm
by alphagenius
I am using Linux Mint 19.2 Tina Cinnamon and I am trying to install OpenOffice using the DEB files, I downloaded the latest version and the also the language pack. I unzip them and I started installing OpenOffice one DEB at a time. Everything went great but now I am down to just a few files left, and I cannot go any further because they all depend on “openoffice-en-US.” I thought that I had installed that DEB already but I thought maybe I was wrong. I tried again and it was already installed. I even tried reinstalling it but still I get nothing. Will someone please help me fix this so that I can finish installing OpenOffice?
Re: Cannot Meet Dependencies
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 1:58 pm
by RoryOF
My experience, using Xubuntu 18.04, was that I downloaded the deb version from the download page (linked off the OpenOffice icon at bottom right of Forum window). Expand that file, then in a terminal do
to remove all traces of LibreOffice. If you do not wish to do this, then read no further.
Then
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cd ~/Downloads/en-US/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
the en-US portion of the directory path may differ according to the language version you downloaded.
I cannot recollect that I had to download anything else to satisfy dependencies.
Re: Cannot Meet Dependencies
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 6:46 pm
by Bill
alphagenius wrote:I downloaded the latest version
Was this the EN-US version or some other language?
alphagenius wrote:...and the also the language pack.
What language?
Re: Cannot Meet Dependencies
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 6:53 pm
by alphagenius
This was the en-US version.
Re: Cannot Meet Dependencies
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:15 pm
by Bill
I loaded LM 19.2 on a live USB and ran into the same problem when using GDEBI to install the packages one at a time. Try using dpkg to install the packages that GDEBI won't install.
[SOLVED] Re: Cannot Meet Dependencies
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:23 pm
by alphagenius
Since I did not get to many things installed on the laptops with Linux Mint, I decide to start over and put Debian KDE on them. I am working to get things setup now. When I get to OpenOffice and I run into any more problems, I will be sure to come back to these forums. Thanks everyone for your input.