Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Simple Installation Instructions

Hi Greg,

2010/12/26 Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>:
> On Sunday 26 December 2010 12:21:22 pm Andy Brown wrote:
> > On Sun Dec 26 2010 12:42:57 GMT-0800 (PST)  Katheryne Draven wrote:

[...]

> Maybe the pain felt now is temporary, because LO is a RC and each distro has not
> had time to package LO.  I prefer my distro to manage my packages for me. Having
> a package manager be aware of installed apps, having the system share libraries,
> dictionaries/spellchecking, fonts, etc is my preference.

That's the right way to do it. The package manager of your distro
should know about all the packages you installed.

But, if you use dpkg (for debian based distros) or rpm (for rpm based
distros) then your package manager will know about the package you
installed. You could test it by installing the deb packages with dpkg
and check then in your software center (assuming that you use ubuntu),
you'll see LibreOffice being listed there. At least, this is true for
me using Mandriva (rpm based).

> Not sure if the  'one installer to rule them all' fits or does not fit the
> traditional way Linux has been using for package management, rpms, debs, tgz etc.
> I am fortunate that Debian has folks packaging LO, thanks for that.

I am grateful for those folks too, but sometimes I want to install the
"vanilla version" or want to install a developer snapshot, because I
want to write documentation for the upcoming release, so it's not a
good idea to wait until the software is out. It's nice to have
documentation almost as soon as the software is out. ;)

Sigrid

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