topic title: What's held? LibreOffice is out for some reason...
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386solardrain
Joined: 10 Jul 2015
#1
I have held broken packages; but how could I know that? Sure I said N to taking a few fresh config. files with updated tools

How do I find what's held?

/var/log/apt/term.log. don't seem to have a lot to say about 'held'... Thanks for the suggestion to post here, rokytnjy.

ooookay, I'm trying to attach information, but no kind of file extension seems to be acceptable, producing the php access to /posting.php error. gzipped it.

replacing /etc with /etc followed by blank tags...no wait, that posted. Brackets (ellipses) around the first slash are said to work but within code tags it's necessary to escape the slash with a -trailing- star. Only...
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Posts: 1,445
skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#2
synaptic package manager
click toolbar"Reload" button
click"Status" (lower portion of left pane)
at top left, you're able to filter the display to show only"broken" packages.

man dpkg-query might instruct how to see just"held" packages. (If it does, I couldn't find the right option).

The raw status data is available, for each package on your system, within the file:
/var/lib/dpkg/status
I don't known whether it labels 'em as"half installed" or"broken" or"held". I don't have any such packages on my system at the moment.
the php access to /posting.php error
Yeah, there's an"announcements" sticky post about that
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#3
noticed this"important detail" posted to the chatbox
the issue remains when I ask for libreoffice back with apt-get install libreoffice
You didn't think to mention that detail here?!?

I got 2 suggestions for ya:

reinstall
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#4
Future reference for 386solardrain for posting sources.list

post40241.html

to get by on the forbidden forum bug
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386solardrain
Joined: 10 Jul 2015
#5
Could've sworn I posted an epilogue already.

Solved: Method--
Enable repos that returned connection errors, click CANCEL on update, watch things like LibreOffice show as ready to update instead of broken!
And then it works.
Debug method (hypothetical)--
Skip apt and synaptic and go to dpkg, the backend, instead; it offers --force-hold as an option which forces the install of held objects, perhaps yielding telltale info in debug, perhaps invoked using -D10 -D40 or -D400 (according to the rich octal-keyed debug trigger mask.)
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Blurey
Joined: 07 Oct 2015
#6
My trouble, Libre Office sound problem!

I am totally new here. There are a version, AntiX 15 (Full) as a sharp system installed. The rest Debian in derivatives Ubuntu and Mint distributions Libre Office Impress played pps,- it student he sound and music has. Antix mx 14.2 - 15.1 the pps. did not entail a success dumb, altogether there are not a sound or music .



Thank you, meanwhile 386solardrain I found the solution in his enclosure the sound onto the solution of my problem. Shows on the install DVD so for something do not settle all the necessary packets.
" sudo apt-get install libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer"
"sudo apt-get install libreoffice-avmedia-backend-vlc"
the sound solved it problem.

Excuse me google translator!


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