Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

On 02/11/2013 06:14 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2013-02-11 17:01, Dan Lewis a écrit :
>
> > All well and good, but the simple way that you suggest will present
> > problems for the newcomer on Debian OS's. The desktop-integration file
> > will not install if the LO that came with the OS install CD remains: it
> > must be removed. Without doing this, you can not right click on a file
> > and select a LO version to open the file.
>
> > We used to use Synaptic to remove an installed program or install a
> > program from the Ubuntu repositories. A few years ago Ubuntu no longer
> > included this package manager when it went to using the Unity desktop.
> > (Synaptic was a part of the gnome desktop package.) In its place, Ubuntu
> > introduced the Ubuntu Software Center. It appears that programs can also
> > be removed using it, but only if they came from the Ubuntu repositories.
> > Right now I have LO 3.6.5.2 and 4.0.0.3 installed from the website.
> > Neither of these are listed in Ubuntu Software Center, so it can not be
> > used to remove them.
>
> > I just checked out your first paragraph. What you wrote does not work
> > for installing LO in Ubuntu. (It probably will not work for any of the
> > Debian OS's, but I only have Ubuntu and can not check the others.) The
> > only thing that works is to think about the specific steps that must be
> > followed and determine how to do them either on the command line or
> > using a script. You may want to call these convoluted, but at least they
> > work.
> >
> > --Dan
>
> Thanks for the information Dan. I will install Ubuntu on a spare box 
> and test these out. I for one am for simplifying the notes on the .rpm 
> section and adding a more simplified intallation routine of the 4 
> steps which do work for users who install the most used default 
> managers as Gnome or KDE managers.
>
> We should also try to find a visual installation routine for our 
> Ubuntu users. The vast majority of users are just interested in using 
> the software. Is some wish to install the latest and the bleeding edge 
> versions, we need to make it an easy install.
>
> We are looking for more contributors in all of our teams and 
> especially QA. IMO, we should try to get our betas/rc's into the hands 
> of users interested in QA who actually use LibreOffice in a productive 
> way. The installation barrier should not become such a burden that 
> such users would cringe at the very thought of installing these 
> pre-release versions. When doing QA, users are often installing newer 
> version of LibreOffice in a very short order of time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc


I think we need to make it as easy as possible for our users [ 
Windows/Mac/Linux ] to install the newest version of LO to replace the 
older ones.

I really think it is not Windows vs. Linux, but how we can make it easy 
for all users, no matter what OS they use.  MS has an installer build 
into the .msi package.  We need to do something like that for Linux.

HP has a package like "sh hplip-3.11.3a.run" that is run in the terminal 
that walks you through the install process for the Linux printing.

There are a lot of complex things going on, including a "make" option in 
there.  How easy would it be to create something like that?







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