Re: [libreoffice-users] removing AbiWord from Ubuntu 12.04 kills LO desktop-menus

Hi :)
I have often heard grumbles about the insanity of Ubuntu's package maintainers but they have never 
got close to troubling me before.  Still haven't really but i hope it doesn't create problems for 
other people.  

I did a clean fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a few different machines and found LO was the 
default odf reader/writer.  The default desktop environment only has about 6 or 8 things on it's 
equivalent of the "taskbar" and about 4 of them are LibreOffice things.  Reaching anything else is 
a little trickier as menus seem to be old fashioned nowadays.  

I've not tried an upgrade from 10.04 LTS or at least not noticed the results being problematic
Regards from
Tom :)  






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> Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2012, 16:21
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] removing AbiWord from Ubuntu 12.04 kills LO desktop-menus
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>
> I noticed that AbiWord was the default ODF file reader when I right-click on a document created 
> with LO.  I just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04.1 64-bit from 10.04.
>
> When I use the package manager to remove AbiWord, it removed things like the desktop menu listing 
> for LO in Office and some other LO packages.  When I did a reinstall, the desktop menu creation 
> failed due to a LO-core issue.  So I needed to remove all of the LO package files and do a "fresh 
> install".
>
> Why AbiWord removal removes LO packages, I do not know.
>
> Why did re-installing LO over the working 3.5.6 to replace the "removed" or "broken" packages, 
> cause the desktop menu error, I do not know.
>
> Why it took a removal of LO from the system and a "fresh" install to get it working again, I do 
> not know.
>
> But for anyone using Ubuntu 12.04, be sure to remove AdiWord before you install LO on your system. 
> 12.10 comes out in about a week, so this might be an issue there as well, if 12.10 installs 
> AdiWord when you want LO's newest.
>
> By-the-way Ubuntu 12.04.1 installs LO 3.5.4 by default, so removing that version to use 3.5.6, 
> "forces" Ubuntu to install AbiWord during the removal of 3.5.4, so you will have some 
> wordprocessor.
>
>
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