Re: [libreoffice-users] Just joined the list- users having trouble with gnome panels when using LibreOffice

Um, Joel...?


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Tony Godshall <togo@of.net> wrote:
> > > > We generally recommend you install from PPA's not from the website. Our
> > > > debian packages on the website are not packaged explicitly for Ubuntu --
> > > > much better to stick to PPA's which are packaged by Bjoern (Canonical
> > > > employee) specifically for Ubuntu. If I were you, I'd purge LIbreOffice
> > > > completely and install through ppa without OpenOffice installed.
>
> ...
>
> > > I never heard of the PPA over website version install recommendation
> > > before.
>
> quote
>
> Most of the packages in this PPA have only experienced minor testing
> -- in fact it is the place to enable a wider audience to test packages
> before they are published into the distro proper. In general, this PPA
> is _not_ for the average user to install without a closer look (if it
> would be, its packages would be in the main repositories). OTOH, it is
> _way_ _better_ to use packages from this PPA than using the *.deb
> files that The Document Foundation provides upstream. So, _if_ you
> want to be on the bleeding edge, do it here, not with upstream
> *.debs."
>
> end quote from https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa
>
> ...



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