[libreoffice-users] Re: LO on Lucid...

On 09/20/2011 02:22 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
...
> I re-installed the last LTE which was Lucid 10.04.3.
> Found out that you have to amputate and donate your left forearm to
> science in order to install LO on Lucid, especially when Lucid is
> fresh.

Actually it's rather simple to install LO on lucid; download the .deb(s)
(main package & help package), extract, got to the DEBS folder(s) and '$
sudo dpkg -i *.deb). Don't forget to do the same in the
/LibO_3.4.3rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration
folder so that it installs the menus in Applications|Office.

> I added the LO PPA, and compiled one "sudo apt-get install" for LO
> including all of the "Suggested" packages (sort of as an exercise to
> see how many packages I had to install.  The only meta package (LO)
> didn't include msttcore-whatever or Java-anything... I know that my
> final all-in-one install for LO and all that it needed was more that a
> single 23x80 Terminal screen could display... not to mention the
> research for "no candidate for this package" that I had to research.
> During the install of LO, dpkg couldn't find some script files or
> something, and dpkg was wonky on a couple of installs of Firefox 6 or
> Thunderbird 6...  It eventually cleared up again and is working
> right...

Actually it's quite handy to keep the original OOo version, both for
comparison against LO, and in order to be able to print properly etc (if
using 3.4.x). Should you want to that you'll find that removing the LO
ppa can leave quite a mess.

I know that pretty much as fact as we just had a rather interesting
thread & test over on the Ubuntu users list last week:

<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/248566>
[Lucid office trap]

My recommendation is to follow these instructions:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/248642>
(part of the thread, but expanded so you can see all the text)
...


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