There are a lot of distros in between the 2 extremes. Slackware
usually tries to do the least amount of tweaking for most packages
but apparently Arch has better documentation to help set the whole
thing up. If i went this route i would dual-boot with Ubuntu/Debian
for a while by installing Arch or Slackware on a new partition. I
don't think i would go this route at all tho. I prefer sticking with
Ubuntu as articles appear in fairly mainstream media about it and i
bump into people that are using it.
Regards from Tom :)
--- On Sun, 8/4/12, Jonathan Schultz<jonathan@imatix.com> wrote:
From: Jonathan Schultz<jonathan@imatix.com> Subject: Re:
[libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash To:
users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 8 April, 2012, 5:26
Presumably you copied the old User Profile to the new place to get
your previous settings and Extensions back?
Yes, did that and it worked fine. I also do some strange things like
replace the dictionary files with symbolic links into my working
directories so that they get shared and synchronised between my
different devices.
You can always try the repo version another time and then perhaps
do a parallel install after that maybe.
Since I noticed that the debian testing repository is allegedly the
same version as TDF's (3.4.6-602) I tried using it but the problem
came back. So I'll stick with TDF's version for now and wait for a
new release.
Cheers, Jonathan
Regards
from Tom :)
--- On Sun, 8/4/12, Jonathan Schultz<jonathan@imatix.com> wrote:
From: Jonathan Schultz<jonathan@imatix.com> Subject: Re:
[libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash
To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 8 April, 2012, 1:11
You might have already tried this but it looks like you didn't
mention it. Can you download the TDF's official version instead
of using one from the repos?
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=deb-x86〈=en-GB
I have tried it now, and it works! Thank you very much. It messed
with my desktop integration a little and put the configuration
files in a different place, but when I'd worked that out it all
looked good.
I didn't bother with the parallel installation though, actually
didn't notice that you'd shown me that link until it was too late.
I guess I can go back to the debian distro when they get 3.4.6?
Annoyingly the main downloads page tries to give me the .Rpm
instead of the .Deb but also it lets you choose the more stable
3.4.6 instead of the 3.5.2.
It worked for me, ie offered me the .deb installation.
Cheers, Jonathan