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   melodie
   Member
   3 posts

   Hello,

   I installed the full version yesterday, 8.04-2, and after the install I checked the repositories, update the list of applications, installed ndiswrapper and so and configured the wifi quite easily (pcmcia card Realtek with netma 512 Windows driver). Then I was suprised, as I tried to remove OpenOffice suite, as I prefer using Abiword that's lighter, along with Gnumeric : Removing Openoffice.org would remove 800 mo or so of all kind of applications and system packages, thus breaking the system : is it a bug, or is it done on purpose, and if so, what for ?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   corenominal
   root
   251 posts

   Hi melodie :)

   This is due to the "crunchbang-desktop" metapackage which lists all the packages needed to build the system as dependencies. I guess this could be considered as a bug, although Ubuntu's metapackages exhibit similar properties; have you ever tried removing PulseAudio from Ubuntu Hardy? Anyhow, I guess the easiest workaround would be to install Abiword and Gnumeric and leave OO.o as is. Other than that, the other option would be to install the "lite" version and then install packages as needed.

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   Posted 1 year ago #
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   melodie
   Member
   3 posts

   Hi corenominal,

   I think I tried to remove just the crunchbang-desktop metapackage, to remove the dependancy from the rest, and I even tried to re-install Openoffice.org, then crunchbang-desktop, to make the package manager believe it was "installed by hand" and thus not needed by the rest of the world ! But for Openoffice.org, I got the message "installed by hand" allright, but it was still not possible to remove it.

   I'm not interested in keeping it along with other applications, because if I do so, I'll have to accept all the updates to come, when updating/upgrading whole system, which considering Openoffice's weight is not that a good bargain !

   I indeed thought about the light version, but I didn't yet see what comes with it.

   Thanks.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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