[Solved] Cannot Meet Dependencies

[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?

[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

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sudo apt purge libreoffice*

to remove all traces of LibreOffice. If you do not wish to do this, then read no further.

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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.

[Bill]

I downloaded the latest version

Was this the EN-US version or some other language?

...and the also the language pack.

What language?

[alphagenius]

This was the en-US version.

[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.

[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.