[ale] just installed LibreOffice in Linux, should have been easier

[Ron Frazier]

I was trying to install Libre Office on my 3rd PC using the PPA as 
described in prior posts. It threw up a bunch of dependency errors:

ron at tosh-2455-1:~$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   libreoffice: Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:3.3.1-1ubuntu3~lucid2) but
it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libreoffice-writer but it is not going to be
installed
                Depends: libreoffice-calc but it is not going to be
installed
                Depends: libreoffice-impress but it is not going to be
installed
                Depends: libreoffice-draw but it is not going to be
installed
                Depends: libreoffice-math but it is not going to be
installed
                Depends: libreoffice-base but it is not going to be
installed
                Depends: libreoffice-report-builder-bin but it is not
going to be installed
                Depends: libreoffice-filter-mobiledev but it is not going
to be installed
                Depends: libreoffice-java-common (>= 1:3.3.1~) but it is
not going to be installed
E: Broken packages


I tried the same thing from synaptic and got the same result. From 
synaptic, I installed libreoffice-common manually, then was able to 
install libreoffice and libreoffice-gnome with no problem. I don't know 
what was different on this PC, but it seems to be working now.

Ron


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