[ale] just installed LibreOffice in Linux, should have been easier

[Ron Frazier]

Hi Pat,

I've just been really not liking Oracle of late. I just thought it was 
something I could go ahead and take care of. Silly me. I think I can use 
the PPA mentioned in other posts to complete the installation on my 
other PC's much easier. Hopefully, I can get the first computer to 
recognize the PPA and seamlessly start auto updates, I hope, I hope.

Also, I'm on Ubuntu 10.04, which is a long term support release. I may 
not upgrade any time soon, since everyone seems to say that in place 
upgrades don't work properly many times. A totally fresh install doesn't 
appeal to me since I've spent the past year getting this going the way I 
want it. Finally, I don't know that I like what they're doing with the 
Unity interface and all. I suspect that I don't. I may try it in a VM or 
something. Right now, I just want to do less working on the computer, 
and do more working with the computer. I'm trying to convert as totally 
to Linux as possible, and I think I can get to about 95%. I have a whole 
laundry list of applications I want to get done, and some security items 
to deal with, some of which have been listed in other posts. After that, 
I can get back to using the PC to do stuff rather than setting up the PC 
so I can use it to do stuff.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 03/13/2011 09:12 PM, Pat Regan wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:11:25 -0400
> Ron Frazier<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I followed the instructions on the LibreOffice website download page.
>> How am I supposed to know there are all these easier methods
>> elsewhere?
>>      
> It is something you don't even have to think about.  Most of us will
> just wait until LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice in our distribution.
>
> Why was it necessary to switch to the new fork before your distro?  Did
> I read that you're running Ubuntu?  LibreOffice will be shipped as
> default with 11.04 in a few months anyway.
>
> Pat
>
>    

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