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

[Jim Kinney]

vs. cmd1; cmd2  which is run command 1 then command 2 regardless of
end status of 1

or cmd1 | cmd2  while take stdout of cmd1 and stdin for cmd2

or...

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> cmd1 && cmd2
>
> The && says run cmd2 only if the exit status of cmd1 indicates success (that
> is, is 0). The opposite of that is:
>
> cmd1 || cmd2
>
> Which says to run cmd2 if the exit status of cmd1 is something other than 0.
>
> --
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>
> On Mar 15, 2011 1:57 PM, "Ron Frazier" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>
> wrote:
>> Could you explain what that does? Are you saying enter both commands on
>> the same line like you typed it?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> On 03/15/2011 01:22 PM, JD wrote:
>>> Perhaps I'm crazy, but I always do
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get update&& sudo apt-get upgrade
>>>
>>>
>>> together before installing any new packages. This keeps all the
>>> underlying packages current - that could be the issue you are seeing
>>> between the different systems. In real-time programming, this is known
>>> as data homogeneity. All the data on a specific thread/priority cannot
>>> be changed by outside priorities until the thread/priority finishes.
>>> Basically, you get consistent data before you begin processing.
>>>
>>> I do agree that not doing the "upgrade" should work provided you aren't
>>> too out of date with patches. I've just never wanted to test that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/15/2011 12:42 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
>>>
>>>> Preston,
>>>>
>>>> I can't say what happened. The commands below worked on the other PC's
>>>> with no problem. PC #3 is running the same version of Ubuntu, but the
>>>> process failed and threw the errors I posted. I tried it yesterday, but
>>>> I have no explanation. Once I installed that one package manually, the
>>>> rest worked. I actually did the last two commands from synaptic, but the
>>>> result should be the same either way.
>>>>
>>>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
>>>> sudo apt-get update
>>>> sudo apt-get install libreoffice
>>>> sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>> On 03/15/2011 11:17 AM, Preston Boyington wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ron Frazier wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I was trying to install Libre Office on my 3rd PC using the PPA as
>>>>>> described in prior posts. It threw up a bunch of dependency errors:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> <SNIPPED>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried the same thing from synaptic and got the same result. From
>>>>>> synaptic, I installed libreoffice-common manually, then was able to
>>>>>> install libreoffice and libreoffice-gnome with no problem. I don't
>>>>>> know
>>>>>> what was different on this PC, but it seems to be working now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> just curious, but has the PPA been updated or is your Ubuntu system
>>>>> using slightly different sources?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
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>>
>> Ron Frazier
>>
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