[Solved] 4.1.7 refuses to uninstall

[gdhayes]

to who it concerns,
I am at the end and rarely ask questions however
OpenOffice 4.1.7 won't go away.
4.1.15 installs over it but the running reference is 4.1.7.
openoffice4 and soffice all bring up 4.1.7.
en-US
DEBS
desktop-integration
I have exhausted most search url's.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/529520/ ... openoffice
https://superuser.com/questions/33412/h ... from-linux
I could use a suggestion on how to purge 4.1.7 so 4.1.15 will install/run.

Thank you

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

This one should do the trick:
sudo apt-get remove --purge openoffice*

Then follow the tutorial: [Tutorial] Installing Apache OpenOffice on GNU/Linux.

Please add [Solved] at the beginning of the title in your first post (top of the topic) with the ✎ button if your issue has been fixed.

[gdhayes]

ok
4.1.15 installed and

[FJCC]

The Rev number on that splash screen is correct for the 4.1.7 build but the date in 2023 is not right. 4.1.7 was released in 2019.
From where did you get your installation files for 4.1.15?
Exactly what commands have you run to remove 4.1.7 and install 4.1.15?

[gdhayes]

update

sudo dpkg -i en-US/DEBS/*.deb en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffic*.deb
Selecting previously unselected package openoffice.
(Reading database ... 279832 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../openoffice_4.1.15-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking openoffice (4.1.15-2) ...
dpkg: warning: downgrading openoffice from 4.1.15-2 to 4.1.7-1

Where's that coming from?
The download came from Apache.
I have followed all the standard cmds from the web, and the support site.
The last command I ran was sudo aptitude purge OpenOffice after installing aptitude.

[FJCC]

What happens if you run

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sudo apt install en-US/DEBS/*.deb en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/*.deb

[gdhayes]

I did ran that command and the result was the same.
After further reading, this command did the trick:

sudo dpkg -i --refuse-downgrade en-US/DEBS/*.deb en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffic*.deb

I will thank youall for your help.

[RoryOF]

Here are the exact steps I always use to install OpenOffice on a linux distro using deb files.

Change to your Download directory, to which you have downloaded the tar file. Then

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tar vxf the_full_name_of_the_file.tar.gz.

this will unpack the file into a folder with name something like en-US in the downloads folder.
Change into that folder, then into DEBS folder in it
then

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sudo dpkg -i *.deb

cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Do not omit the desktop integration folder change

Linux is sensitive to the case of the commands.