Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How do I install the current Linux version

On 10/31/2016 06:53 PM, gordon cooper wrote:
> On 01/11/16 09:16, Robert Großkopf wrote:
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> > Hi Tim,
> > > What I do is unpack the install files [I use .deb files] and place
> > > them all in a temporary folder I call "lib".  Nice and simple, I
> > > have that folder in the "home" folder called "timothy".
> > >
> > > This will give me "/home/timothy/lib" while using the file manager
> > >   package [on Mint] called "Caja".
> > >
> > >
> > > Then I use the "Mate Terminal" [default command line for the MATE
> > > desktop GUI]
> > >
> > > This is my starting point for this laptop - yours will look
> > > different since you will not have the same laptop and user name.
> > > This is the default user folder for my laptop.
> > >
> > > timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~$
> > >
> > > I type in "cd lib"
> > >
> > > timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~$ cd lib
> > >
> > > I get this folder shown
> > >
> > > timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~/lib$
> > >
> > > At this point I use this command to install all of the .deb files
> > > from that folder. I tend to place both the language and help .deb
> > > files - if needed - in a different folder like lib2.
> > >
> > > sudo dpkg -i *.deb
> > >
> > > This will prompt me to five my superuser password.  Then it will
> > > start a "long" install process for all of the .deb files in the
> > > folder. The RPM system would have some different names for the
> > > commands I use for the DEB based Linux OS [ I use Ubuntu with Mate
> > > desktop]
> > >
> > > So, if you have a folder off your home folder [or directory] with
> > > the name of "lib" [home/timothy/lib], the command line is a very
> > > easy route.
> > >
> > > cd lib
> > >
> > > sudo dpkg -i *.deb
> > After looking for this in the web I would make it the same way you
> > have described here. It's a little bit different to the tool, which is
> > delivered with OpenSuSE for system-managing with YAST, but it will
> > work well.
> > Don't know how to add a dircetory as repository in other sytems. But
> > with OpenSUSE it works well.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Robert
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> This installation method all looks overly complicated to me, and is one
> of the reasons that I swapped over to MX-Linux where the system comes
> as a package with installation instructions/prompts included. Plus the 
> bonus
> that the User Manual can be read/downloaded beforehand.
>
> Gordon.
[pardon me for issues in this text, since I have not slept much in the 
past week]

I can find free ebooks for Ubuntu that have a lot of info about how to 
install and run Ubuntu.

I keep the install commands in a "sticky note" on my laptop's display.  
Actually I have "heard", from one of the email lists I read, of someone 
made a singles script to run that allows people to do all of the 
commands needed to install LO with needed prompts for password and 
yes/no.  The only scripting I do is for the backups my internal 6.25 TB 
of data files to USB external drives. I need 6+ "rsync" commands to do 
the type of complex I need to make sure many of my folders have 4+ 
copies of many audio/video files and photo folders.  This way I make 
sure all my digital photos and videos taken/recorded since 2005.  Same 
with other files/content I want/need to keep. Many I cannot find online 
anymore.

For the other parts of this thread, I do not use a PPA for LibreOffice, 
since I want to have the option to upgrade or downgrade LO when I want 
to.  I have used PPAs in the past and have a few as well.  For the users 
that do not install a PPA into the repository, most have instructions 
how to install it.

I used OpenSUSE on a system that originally shipped with a paid version 
ending with "SUSE".  After a while it was switched to Ubuntu.  I have 
never heard anything about MX-Linux.  I have used Ubuntu as my main OS 
since 2009. I chose Linux for the free software that was getting too 
expensive to buy what I needed for Windows XP and later Win7.



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