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

Get the best of both worlds - On Ubuntu 10.04, use GNOME but in the 
Synaptic Program Manager, install KDE 4.  That way GNOME is still your 
default desktop package, but you get the good stuff from KDE as well.

ALSO - IMPORTANT
When you update OS, make sure you save your hidden "dot" folders for 
your email package to some other name.  That way you can then save the 
folder back to the proper hidden dot folder after the upgrade of OS.  
PLUS if you do this, you can save your weekly email use so you always 
have a backup or two JUST IN CASE you have a major 
problem/crash/melt-down, etc., etc..  I found out this the hard way.

I have not gone to 11.xx due to the fact it want the default boot 
resolution to be one that my monitor cannot do.  I will be getting a 
bigger and better monitor sometime soon.

ALSO, I prefer to install LO from the ones put out by the LO site 
instead from a PPA.  I know you have to install it on Ubuntu with the 
Terminal, but it is worth the simple steps.

"msttcore-whatever or Java-anything" - If you do not have MS core fonts 
installed, you can easily find it by searching the Synaptic Program 
Manager.  search for "ttf-mscorefonts-installer - Installer for 
Microsoft TrueType core fonts".  Actually you should add the MS core 
fonts, since a large amount of people use them on their documents and as 
the default font[s] for their emails.

As for Java, you get OpenJDK and OpenJRE with Ubuntu, so you will not 
need the non-open-source version.  Make sure you have the JRE installed, 
but add JDK as well for good measure.

On 09/20/2011 05:22 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
> Hi, gang!
>
> Summary (before I get wildly off-topic) --
> Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work...
>
> Okay... keep reading at your own peril. ;)  You were warned. :)
> I have had an interesting month.
>
> For a while now, I have been cron'ing a backup of ~ to my 2T USB
> drive, as well as forcing myself to remember to do most of my work on
> the USB.
>
> I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 maverick to Ubuntu 11.04 natty (I was
> surprised one night by Update Manager, so I let it upgrade to natty),
> and things quickly started going completely _batty_!  (I chose a word
> that rhymed with natty... although a few curse words were what
> originally came to mind).  I almost freaked when the upgrade started
> deleting all of my apps, and only replacing some of them apps in
> natty, and I really was nervous when it replace OoO with LO.  LO is
> now my standard suite on Linux and Windows, and I'm still "converting"
> others from M$ to OoO and now LO in Windoze.
>
> So I went to natty Gnome2 and LO... tried to install Gnome3 for
> Evolution... very bad idea.
> Gnome3 would not display so I had to install natty Xfce.
> natty Xfce just wouldn't do some things that I was used to in Gnome2
> (like mount my darn 2T USB), and I lost all of my Evolution email
> archives, so I installed KDE and swiched to kdm... hoping to magically
> "find" my evolution email structure somewhere.
>
> I somehow ended up booting Xubuntu, and using kdm/KDE... I'm not sure
> how I did it.
> Apparently, all of my Gnome2 programs were still there, but I had to
> find them and run them from
> the commandline... until I started figuring out how to add items to the menu...
> yet I just wasn't satisfied with KDE.
> One or two massive updates, and long unstable boots watching Xbuntu . . . . ...
> I said time to go back to LTE plus PPAs.
> KDE was still was not as strong as Gnome2... so I punted and called it a wash!
>
> 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.
> 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...
>
> I say ALL of that to say -- Ubuntu is probably the most flexible
> platform for installing things... from synaptic apt-get aptitude dpkg
> to yum rfm packages.  I'm just glad that I was able to get back up and
> running... and install LO into lucid (along with other apps)... all in
> less than a week. :)
>
> I've given up on evolution, when I can to what I need in
> TB-enig-Sunbird. Oh, you might have figured out, encryption is an
> important thing to me, by my last statement.
>
> Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work... so people
> will stop asking me to download an illegal copy of MS Office for them.
> ;(
>
> --
> Barry Smith
> e bnsmith001@gmail.com
> w http://bit.ly/l8QJup


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