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

[Geoffrey Myers]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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...

cmd1 > cmd2

which writes the output of cmd1 to cmd2.  Hopefully your cmd2 was not in 
this directory when you did this. :)

> 
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!
>>
>> 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 too out of date with patches.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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>> --
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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