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Hi :)
Ahh great.  I just don't know my way around Unity yet.  Anyway using the same tool you used before 
sounds like a good option ;)  

Oh, if things go really badly wrong Ubuntu offers a really neat trick that not many people know 
about.  You can re-install it without formatting or over-writing data.  You have to re-install the 
extra programs again (or remove ones you uninstalled last time)

On about the 3rd screen of the 11.10 installer (and most releases before that too) it offers 
choices such as 
"Erase disk and install Ubuntu" (avoid this one!!) or
"Something else" (this is the one)
It scans your drives and shows your partitions in a nice colourful graphical display.  If you chose 
the wrong option either press the back button or the link to "Advanced partitioning tool" to get to 
the same gui.  

You need to set one partition to be / as that is where the OS and programs go.  It needs to be the 
same partition type as it was before, probably ext4 or ext3.  It is good to have a separate /home 
partition but that is usually in the same partition as the / first time you try Gnu&Linux.  Note 
that /home is a sub-folder inside / and contains user data&settings.  

The important thing is to make sure that the "Format?" column has NO ticks.  If a partition gets 
formatted it loses all the data it contained.  Ubuntu allows you to install without having any of 
these ticked.  I think it's not recommended as a fresh install is better but it is possible and 
seems to work well :)  

Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Tue, 18/10/11, planas <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:

From: planas <jslozier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 18 October, 2011, 18:47
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 08:16 -0700,
chimak111 wrote: 

Hi Tom, thanks for replying. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10
(Oneiric Ocelot) with
Unity 3D. I'd have preferred to have uninstalled it
via LibreOffice itself
but I'll give your suggestion a try and hope I don't
break anything.

I'm not vastly experienced in Linux. So let's see. I
had installed the "Copy
Visible Cells" extension and that has a way to
disable/remove it from within
LibreOffice's Extension Manager. That, in my opinion,
should be the way to
uninstall extensions.

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Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 both have Synaptic - at the variants
I have
looked at. If not installed, it can be downloaded using the
Software
Center. Synaptic provides a GUI for detailed package
management.
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