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

Hi :)
I think removing stuff by using the command-line takes away the same dependencies that any of the 
package managers would.  They all use the same command-line tools after all.
Regards from
Tom :)  





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> From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012, 13:34
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: removing AbiWord from Ubuntu 12.04 kills LO desktop-menus
>
> On 10/10/2012 07:02 PM, Andreas Säger wrote:
> > Am 10.10.2012 17:21, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> > > 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".
> > Running the same Ubuntu/Unity on a 64-bit ThinkPad I just tried
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get remove abiword
> >
> > which did not affect any of my other office suites (currently AOO and
> > LibO from ppa).
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get remove abiword
> >
> > reinstalls the same abiword as before without affecting anything. I can
> > double-click text documents, I can choose any application from the
> > context menu of an .odt file.
> >
> > The only thing that drives me nuts is that Ubuntu refuses to open any
> > ODF document with the graphical zip tool ("unsupported archive") unless
> > I change the file name suffix to .zip. This is most idiotic Windows style.
> I think it may have been partly the way my system is set up.
>
> I have KDE [full package] installed as well as 12.04's default packages and MATE desktop 
> environment's packages.  It may be that KDE part of the system say that LO 3.5.4 was removed so it 
> added AdiWord when I did the process using Synaptic Package Manager.  I keep forgetting about the 
> "apt-get remove" command.  I do not use the Terminal much, even after using Ubuntu 9.10 for a few 
> months till 10.04 came out, then 10.04 till Monday.
>
> I do not use the LO ppa, but install LO from the Debian download offered by the LO download site.
>
> 10.04 had no problems with opening the ".oxt" extension files in the archive managers.  For some 
> reason that was the default and not opening it up in LO.  I have not tried to edit my dictionaries 
> with 12.04, yet, but will be working on adding more words later as I have time to build the python 
> scripts to do some data-mining of documents to find any missing words and checking if their 
> spellings are correct.  I have been wanting to do this for months, but not had the time to do the 
> work correctly.
>
>
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