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

Hi Barry,

What has worked very well for me from back in the days when Ubuntu 
didn't update things like OpenOffice until a new version of Ubuntu came 
out has been the following. Someone had posted these instructions 
several years ago for OpenOffice. I've used it since probably Ubuntu 
9.04 through 11.04, just modifying it for the proper version and file 
location for the menus for each new version of OpenOffice, and now 
LibreOffice:
Upgrading to LibreOffice 3.4.3:

For LibreOffice, download the 32 bit or 64 bit debian version from 
LibreOffice.org to the desktop, or move it to the desktop. Then right 
click on it and choose extract to extract it to the desktop.

Then do the following commands in the terminal: (For 32 bit version 
below – for 64 bit modify the lines below for the correct version:
Remove OpenOffice or LibreOffice with:
    sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.* or sudo apt-get remove 
openoffice*.*

    sudo dpkg -i 
~/Desktop/LibO_3.4.3rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/*.deb

    sudo dpkg -i 
~/Desktop/LibO_3.4.3rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.4-debian-menus_3.4-302_all.deb 


    gksu add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

I've always used the direct download from LibreOffice. This method has 
never failed me on many computers, many versions of Ubuntu, and many 
upgrades originally in OpenOffice and now LibreOffice.

Don

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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