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Hi JD,<br>
<br>
Now that I know the PPA's exist, I'm going to try to use them
preferentially (or repositories) to other methods. I have a friend
that likes to say, you don't know what you don't know. Oh well.<br>
<br>
Here's an update on my LibreOffice install.<br>
<br>
On PC #1, I had originally installed with dpkg from the DEBS
directories, as mentioned.<br>
<br>
Next, I tried these commands.<br>
<br>
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa<br>
sudo apt-get update<br>
sudo apt-get install libreoffice<br>
<br>
After the third command, it got to the point where it summarizes what
it's going to do and asks if you wanted to proceed. I expected a whole
bunch of things to be updated, but that's not what it said. It was
going to update 1 thing and install about 45 others. This didn't sound
right. I decided to remove the old install of LibreOffice. I went to
Synaptic and searched for libreoffice and found about 35 entries. I
went back to the terminal and entered:<br>
<br>
sudo aptitude --purge purge libreoffice*<br>
sudo aptitude --purge purge libreoffice3-*<br>
sudo aptitude --purge purge libreoffice3*<br>
sudo aptitude --purge purge libobasis3* (I think.)<br>
<br>
This still didn't get rid of all the libreoffice entries in Synaptic.
I'm not sure what was wrong with these commands. Finally, I just went
into Synaptic and manually checked each item and said to remove it.
After that was done, I used these commands to reinstall LibreOffice
from the PPA.<br>
<br>
sudo apt-get install libreoffice<br>
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome<br>
<br>
As far as I can tell, I now have LibreOffice properly installed AND
properly linked to Synaptic / Apt for my auto updates, hopefully. I
went in and set the security settings the way I wanted, so I think I'm
good to go. Now, I have 1 more Linux machine to install it on, 3
Windows machines to check the configuration, and 2 Windows machines to
remove OpenOffice from and install LibreOffice and configure.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
<br>
On 03/14/2011 10:47 AM, JD wrote:
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This is another post I'm saving for later reference. That's good
info. LibreOffice wasn't originally in the Ubuntu Repositories, so I
didn't use synaptic. Again, I don't wish to get rid of it, so this is
all hypothetical.<br>
<br>
For PC #1, I used this command, per the LibreOffice website, executed
from within each of three DEBS directories extracted from tarballs.<br>
<br>
<code>sudo dpkg -i *.deb<br>
</code><br>
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I avoid doing direct package installs as much as possible and use a PPA
instead. This way I get updates to the programs with my nominal weekly
apt-get update/upgrade process. This isn't always possible, but the
last 3 yrs, I suppose I've installed less than 5 apps across all the
machines I manage outside a PPA or distro source.<br>
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<br>
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