MageiaUpdate broke LibreOffice; can't reinstall! [SOLVED]

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MageiaUpdate broke LibreOffice; can't reinstall! [SOLVED]

Postby Xhermin » Jun 7th, '18, 04:01

Since the usual solution is to uninstall the remainder of the suite and reinstall, I tried that. Trying to install either 32 or 64 bit versions of LO5.4.3.2 or LO5.4.7.2 generates the MCC error message "Sorry, the following package cannot be selected". Actually, 5.4.7.2_x85_64 seems to me missing. LibreOffice itself is up to version 6.x - at least on my Win10 box. I have Mageia 6, Plasma desktop, all current updates.
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uname -a

Linux localhost 4.14.44-desktop-2.mga6 #1 SMP Mon May 28 22:35:45 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


LibreOffice is an ABSOLUTE MUST for me, if this doesn't get solved for me, QUICKLY, this is a dealbreaker for me continuing to use this distro!!!
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Re: MageiaUpdate broke LibreOffice; MCC won't let me reinsta

Postby daniewicz » Jun 7th, '18, 04:24

Have you recently updated your repositories?
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Re: MageiaUpdate broke LibreOffice; MCC won't let me reinsta

Postby benmc » Jun 7th, '18, 09:16

in a root terminal, what does
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# urpmi libreoffice
return?
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Re: MageiaUpdate broke LibreOffice; MCC won't let me reinsta

Postby wintpe » Jun 7th, '18, 11:19

when "Sorry, the following package cannot be selected" comes up, its usually that you have something installed thats incompatible with the packages available in the mageia repo.

as suggested by Benmc, using a a terminal
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su -

enter root password

urpmi libreoffice


dont expect that to work, but the error it gives will be a much better clue to the problem to "Sorry, the following package cannot be selected"

it might be package incompatible with .......

removing that package, if its not tied into other packages may resolve the problem.

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Re: MageiaUpdate broke LibreOffice; MCC won't let me reinsta

Postby Xhermin » Jun 7th, '18, 23:20

This is a relatively fresh Mageia6 install, the repos shoudn't need refreshing/tweaking this soon, but I'll try it. MageiaUpdate has previously been pretty good about dealing with repo shifts automatically. Stay tuned.
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Re: MageiaUpdate broke LibreOffice; MCC won't let me reinsta

Postby Xhermin » Jun 7th, '18, 23:27

Shave my feet and paint me purple, that worked. I really need to learn urpmi, I'm so used to Debian-based apt/synaptik that I don't consider the alternatives.
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Re: MageiaUpdate broke LibreOffice; can't reinstall! [SOLVED

Postby daniewicz » Jun 9th, '18, 03:13

Awesome! :D
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