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

[Michael Trausch]

More accurately "cmd > file", because that's redirection of stdout, not a
pipe...

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On Mar 15, 2011 4:02 PM, "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>> --
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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 too out of date with patches.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
>>>> call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
>>>> mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very quickly.)
>>>>
>>>> Ron Frazier
>>>>
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>>>> linuxdude AT c3energy.com
>>>>
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