Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 4.2 on Ubuntu 10.04

Yes, it may be time to upgrade to some higher version.
14.04 will be out soon, though.

I went from 10.04 to 12.04/MATE and it solved many "problems" I had 
getting updated packages [not LO] with the bug fixes needed.

Yes, 10.04 should have a 5 year support, but practical issues states 
that you should think about doing the LTS version upgrading when that 
version[s] come out.  So it "officially" supported, but not by the 
"independent" developers of needed packages.  12.04 LTS is having that 
trouble now with 13.10 out.

Setting up a testing partition system is a good thing, but only if you 
have the space.  I have a laptop that I do all my testing on, BEFORE I 
install the upgrade OS to this desktop.  I also have my OS and /home 
folder[s] in a different partition than most of my data, so I have 
little that needs to be restored when I wipe 12.04 and do a clean 
install of 14.04 [soon].  Out of a 500GB partition, I have 318GB free.  
I tend to do a lot of work off this partition and then move the results 
to other storage partitions.  This is do to the fact that unlike LO, 
some packages have a difficult time dealing with data files off the 
/home folder system, including those on other drives as well as other 
partitions.  Why, who knows, but I still have to use a few like that.


So, to answer your original post, download the latest 4.1.x version of 
LO and test it out.  I know that 4.2.0 is out, but if you have any 
issues with LO, 4.1.4 would let you know it was 10.04 and not the brand 
new line of 4.2.0. I use 4.1.4 and have no problems with Ubuntu 
12.04/MATE setup.

Yes, some people like Unity, and I have used it, but I still like the 
older GNOME look and feel over the tile based look/feel and the menu bar 
for the package as the top panel.

On 01/31/2014 05:16 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> You probably can't get a PPA or anything for Ubuntu 10.04 now.  It is
> past it's end-of-life.  Generally it is recommended to upgrade to
> 12.04 LTS (this time 5 years support).  However a lot of people
> struggle with the Unity Interface and install Mate or Cinamon.  Other
> people have switched to forks (often known as clones) of Ubuntu such
> as Mint.  Personally i've found Unity fairly easy once i'd "given it a
> fair go".
>
> So, my own personal recommendation would be to create a couple of
> extra partitions and install Mint to 1 and Ubuntu 12.04 to at least 1
> more and then play around with those a bit until you can work them
> out.  That way the GRUB boot-menu still offers you the familiar set-up
> for when you need to get things done.
>
> The simple answer is to just download LibreOffice from the official website
> http://www.libreoffice.org/
> and install it just the same as you would on any Debian-family distro
> (such as Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, and seemingly endless others) either on
> its own
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_LibreOffice_on_Linux
> or in parallel with any other version of LibreOffice
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> On 31 January 2014 03:23, Joel Madero <jmadero.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 01/30/2014 07:15 PM, Yadu Kishore wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is it possible to install LibreOffice 4.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > I don't see why not but honestly I can't test. Best bet is to purge the
> > version you have an then install the debian packages that you can find
> > on www.libreoffice.org/download -- see if you get any errors upon trying.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > Joel
> >
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