Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Libreoffice in Ubuntu

Setting aside the discussion that followed, I would like to thank 
Andreas for his explanation of installing Debian packages from the 
command line. I've been using Ubuntu for about a year now, and I've 
learned how to use the Software Center and Synaptic as well as the "sudo 
apt-get..." commands, which I sense are just three different ways of 
doing the same thing. Beyond that, however, I've never learned how to 
install a Debian package without using the PPAs.

Thank you Andreas for this explanation. You've expanded my knowledge of 
Linux. And after upgrading my Windows partition from 7 to 10 with less 
than satisfactory results, my reliance upon Linux is only that much greater.

Virgil



On 10/09/2015 05:58 AM, Andreas Säger wrote:
> And this is the non-PPA way of installing an archive of Debian 
> packages downloaded from libreoffice.org as described and supported on 
> all OpenOffice support forums since the days of OpenOffice2:
> > cd ~/Downloads
>
> If you downloaded the md5 checksum file as well, you can check the
> integrity of your downloaded archive:
>
> > md5sum --check <text file with check sums>
> Extract the downloaded archive:
>
> > tar -xvzf downloaded_package.tar.gz
> or use your graphical file manager to unpack the archive. I don't know
> any way to do the following with a graphical tool:
>
> go to the extracted directory of debian packages which depends on the
> langauge version. In case of en-US:
>
> > cd en-US/DEBS
> Install the packages as root:
>
> > sudo dpkg -i *.deb
>
> This installs/updates the whole suite to /opt and you can start the
> fully featured program by calling the executable file
> /opt/libreofficeX.Y/program/soffice
>
> For any "desktop integration" you can install an additional package go
> to subdir of en-US/DEBS:
>
> > cd desktop-integration
> and start a simulated installation
>
> > sudo dpkg -i --simulate *.deb
>
> This simulation _may_ fail due to a conflict with /usr/bin/soffice which
> is a symlink pointing to the executable and belonging to the
> installation package of some other ODF suite.
> If no such error is reported, re-run the command without the --simulate
> switch. In case of conflict, it is safe to overwrite this single symlink
> file /usr/bin/soffice:
>
> > sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite *.deb
>
> Now you have LibreOffice and its components in your Ubuntu dash and/or
> menues. ODF files will be opened by default with your new suite.
>
> As far as I know, "desktop integration" can be installed for one version
> of OpenOffice and LibreOffice in parallel. There were times when I had 5
> different versions of both suites in parallel but only one Open and one
> Libre Office can have the "desktop integration" and only one particular
> suite can own the /usr/bin/soffice symlink.
> You are free to modify this symlink as needed but your package managers
> is very picky about the ownership of every single system file outside
> your home directory. Every single file installed remotely via apt or
> locally via dpkg belongs to exactly one software package.
> As long as this symlink is the only conflict, I think it is perfectly OK
> to use the --force-overwrite switch.
>
> Any additional language and help packages can be installed in the same
> simple way:
> 0. run md5sum -check <text file> to check the integrity
> 1. extract .tar.gz  with tar -xzvf ... or the graphical way
> 2. change to the extracted directory, subdir DEBS
> 3. sudo dpkg -i *deb
> They refuse to install if their version does not match with any
> installed office suite.



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