Re: [libreoffice-users] Using external addressbooks as a data source

Hi :)

it is possible to use a different machine, perhaps one at a CyberCafe or 
internet cafe to download stuff.  


Synaptic makes it easier by allowing you to setup a script that can then be used 
on a Linux, Windows or Mac (or possibly even BSD) machine to do the 
downloading.  In Synaptic choose the stuff you want to download.  Instead of 
clicking "Apply" go to it's menus and click on

File - "Save Markings"

and save to usb-stick, rewritable cd or even just attach it to an email and 
email yourself.  The script is quite tiny.  A word of caution tho!  When you 
double-click or run the script on a machine it downloads all the packages to the 
folder the script is in so DONT put the script on the machine's desktop!  A nice 
temp folder on the desktop is much better ;)

Also somewhere in synaptic it allows you to avoid clearing out your package 
download cache so that reinstalling is easier as suggested by Peter.  I think 
the default is to keep packages for 30days or something but this may have been 
changed in the interests of slimming.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)




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From: Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 8 February, 2011 20:46:17
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Using external addressbooks as a data source

On 08/02/2011 17:38, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
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> Thanks for that - I thought they did. I'm running just over my
> average daily bandwidth usage (I'm on a capped bandwidth broadband
> package) so when I've got some slack back I'll try that. Just one
> question - having installed LO from the ppa, how do I uninstall it?
> It doesn't appear in the Ubuntu Software Centre, and I can't seem to
> get the apt-get syntax right for uninstalling...

My policy would be to use Synaptic and un-install completely everything with an 
LO ID and then use the debs (dpkg -iR ./DEBS from the installation directory).

Regards

Peter HB

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