how to uninstall openoffice

[bikeman123]

can someone provide step by step details as to how i can uninstall openoffice please.

I have tried using the synaptic package manager but it says that ubuntu desktop is a dependant.

can i remove open office and keep a working system?

[linear]

You were on the right track with Synaptic. Just let it uninstall ubuntu-desktop, which is just a meta package (only function is to depend on other things). Removing it won't harm anything.

[trebler]

yes I would like to know this too..... and yes its a me too post.

Can anyone please advise how to uninstall Open Pffice while retaining XWindows and desktop etc.

Is there a way to remove it without removing the dependencies.

Oh - X windows is a must.....but we need to lean it up a fair bit and too much junk is installed by default with these things...

so please don't reply if you cannot address my question directly or specifically.

Thanks
treb

[aysiu]

Removing OpenOffice shouldn't remove X. It should, however, removed ubuntu-desktop, which is fine, because ubuntu-desktop is simply defined as "the default set of applications that make up Ubuntu." Once you remove one of those default applications, you no longer have ubuntu-desktop.

[andreas64]

Hi

'sudo apt-get remove openoffice*' should work fine

Andreas

[maxownz]

Originally Posted by andreas64 Hi 'sudo apt-get remove openoffice*' should work fine Andreas

maxownz@maxownz-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove openoffice
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package openoffice
maxownz@maxownz-ubuntu:~$

Didn't work for me

[randomjohn]

you didn't put the asterisk in the command like the previous poster said. you need the wildcard to catch all the openoffice stuff.

the command is

sudo apt-get remove openoffice*

[randomjohn]

btw, I'm trying to uninstall it too (I should have just installed server edition in the first place) and came across this command

• sudo apt-get -y remove openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-l10n-common openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-style-human openoffice.org-writer

and you won't remove the virtual package ubuntu-desktop so you won't have to reinstall gdm or X or whatever

[NoobieDoobieDo]

root@take-back-the-night# apt-get remove openoffice* "After this operation, 332MB disk scape will be freed."

WOW! That seems a bit excessive!

Thanks for the tip, I also wasn't sure if "ubuntu-desktop" was safe to remove. They make it sound like a VERY important package!

Note : GDM reloaded while I was removing OpenOffice so you might want to do it from the command line?

*Reloading GNOME Display Manager configure
*Changes will take effect when all current X sessions have ended [ OK ]

ps. Got an error :

Removing ispell ..

///usr/share/gnome/help/blackjack/el/blackjack.xml:402: parser error : Entity 'B(diamond symbol)(diamond symbol)(diamond symbol)(diamond symbol)' not defined
<para><guimenuitem>(more strange chars)&B;</gui