openoffice / other broken packages in sid

[Daniel Armstrong]

Today I did a base install of Debian on my laptop, upgraded to Sid...

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(my sources.list)
# unstable archives
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

# unstable archives - src
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

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... did my...

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade

....and successfully installed xserver-xorg and a number of other
packages. But when I tried to install OpenOffice or its components I
get a slew of broken dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-debian-files (> 1.1.3+1.1.4)
but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-bin (> 1.1.3+1.1.4) but it
is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

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Subsequently, I found other big packages with broken installs such as
the Gimp and Gnome. I tried a repeated install attempt after another
apt-get update with no luck. Any other Debian users experiencing a
pile of broken packages? Any suggested workarounds? I Googled around
but not sure why so much appears to be broken or how to fix.

Thanks for any help... Daniel
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