Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:24 PM, wlb <wlbates@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Baldwin linguas,
>
> I do have a 64 bit system.  The technician who built my computer and
> introduced me to Linux made sure I knew that.  Thank you for your patience,
> understanding and taking the time to type this out step by step.  I will try
> it and see what happens.

I have a 64b system, too.
Once LibreOffice is installed, you may have to open up your file browser
as sudo/root (press alt-f2, enter sudo nautilus, then your password), and go
to /opt/libreoffice/basis3.3 and remove the file libcairo.so.2
You could just copy that /opt/libreoffice/basis3.3 right into the address bar of
your nautilus, or type it in there.
Your system should already have a libcairo.so.2, which works better than
the one packaged with the libreoffice.
At least, that was my experience, on Debian (the gnu/linux distribution
upon which Ubuntu is loosely based).
Only do that if you can't get Libreoffice started.
Open the command line terminal and enter "swriter", or "libreoffice",
and if it says something about libcairo.so.2, there's your answer.

Also, you definitely want this file
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/3.3.0-rc3/deb/x86_64/LibO_3.3.0rc3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz


./tony


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