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

Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do all
the technical stuff?



2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez <magicfab@member.fsf.org>

> On 11-01-19 02:19 PM, baldwin linguas wrote:
> > She could probably add the repo to synaptic and install
> > by simply copy/pasting the repo url appropriately into
> > the synaptic repo tool, then searching, clicking, installing,
> > too, since we're in pointy clicky land here.
> > Not that learning to manage in the CLI is ever a bad idea,
> > and, in truth, it really IS simpler than all the gui-goodness (bloat).
> > Just, our job on this list is to help her get the LO software installed,
> > more than make a real hacker out of her.
> > Sometimes I think we scare folks off, is all.
> > I find nothing wrong with luring them in with all the eye-candy and
> newfangled
> > "user friendliness" (although I really concur with tuomo about that
> > term "user friendly"),
> > then, when they're really hooked, get 'em writing bash scripts and
> > learning ruby and python and shite...
>
> I would welcome detailed, tested steps to do the same in a GUI with less
> than the 4 steps I enumerated. :) Using a PPA is already a stretch of
> using "Linux for human beings", so is going to LibreOffice so early.
>
> Try describing what you wrote in detailed steps (as an exercise) and
> soon you will need screenshots, red circles and arrows pointing at
> stuff: "add the repo to synaptic and install by simply copy/pasting the
> repo url appropriately into the synaptic repo tool, then searching,
> clicking, installing, too, since we're in pointy clicky land here."
> While at it please define "repo", "synaptic", "repo url", "repo tool"
> and "installing"! I seriously wish PPAs where easier, but then we'd end
> up with Active X :D Such documentation shortcuts are impossible to
> decifer by most users and if expand them it becomes some huge
> intimidating document. I know about this from doing it full time for the
> last 4 years (for Ubuntu, specifically).
>
> I think a video might be in order :) Meh.
>
> Cheers,
>
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