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

Hi :)
Ok, so how about running a Virtual Machine? Perhaps acquire an old hard-drive that you don't care 
about too much and physically unplug all your 5Tb and then plug in the experimental one.  

Btw on a command-line if 2 pathnames or file-names are quite close to each other then when you 
press Tab it will show the 2 or more options and then give you a new prompt with all the stuff you 
had already typed already on it.  Sounds complicated but try it and you'll soon work it out.  
Regards from
Tom :)  





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> From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 19:52
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb
>
> On 02/12/2013 11:10 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> > On 2013-02-10 10:27 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> > > I do not like all that typing.
> > >
> > > What I do is use the default file manager and double click the archived
> > > file and unarchive it.  Then I take the folder that is created and
> > > rename it to Lib or LibO.  That way you do not need to type all of the
> > > characters of the folder's name.
> >
> > Never heard of 'tab-completion'?
> >
> > Try hitting the tab key after typing one or two characters of the folder name and see what 
> > happens...
>
> Never heard of this.  Never know of the Tab completion in the Terminal.
>
> Does it work with the Terminal that is in GNOME, MATE, Unity, KDE?  How about the one that comes 
> with openSUSE and other non-Ubuntu systems.  I have been told that Debian and Ubuntu is "growing 
> apart" so some distros are showing both Ubuntu-based and Debian-based versions.
>
> What happens when you have two folders that are similar characters, except some difference?
>      LibreOffice-4.0-installsvs. LibreOffice-3.6-installs?
> You would have to make sure you go out till the difference?
>
> I tend to unarchive all of the downloaded file for my version at the same time.  For me, that is 
> just the main install and the help pack.
>
>    /To be honest, I never really got into doing all that much with the
>    terminal.  I prefer to use a GUI to do the work. There are a very
>    large amount of things that the terminal can do that I do not know
>    of, or how to do those things that might help me once and a while.    I just never bought or 
> download and GOODand easy to understand
>    reference to what you can do in the terminal.  Of course, there are
>    different ways to do things in a Ubuntu/Debian system than you would
>    do the same thing in a openSUSE or RPM system.  Different commands
>    and such. //
>    //
>    //I have tried things that others say work for the, but does not
>    work in my install of Ubuntu. That is one reason I have a laptop
>    that has a partition that I use to test new versions of Ubuntu and
>    desktop environments.  I do not want to upgrade my 5 TB "production"
>    desktop and then find that something is not right.  I did the
>    upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 on the laptop and it worked fine, but
>    totally crashed on my desktop causing me to need to wipe the system
>    and do a fresh install.  I really did not want to have to reinstall
>    all of the packages over again, but in the end I had no choice to do
>    so and move my data files from my external backup drive.  That took
>    days to complete./
>
>
> SO
> I do not experiment with things on the Terminal, or almost never.
>
> I would love to "experiment" and see about creating a script that would automate the install of LO 
> from an earlier versionusing something like "sh libre-update.run" and then have it do the removal 
> of the older version and install the newer one.  I could place it in the folderthat contains the 
> "DEBS" folder so it will be version independent. But, if I do something wrong, how bad will it go 
> wrong? So right now I am not going toexperiment that way.
>
>
>
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