[ale] libreoffice vs openoffice

[Paul Cartwright]

On 11/03/2010 03:34 PM, Bob Kruger wrote:
> Want to install the new LibreOffice on Ubuntu or a Debian-based
> distribution? Although the Document Foundation doesn’t yet offer /.deb/
> binaries for these distros, you can use the provided .rpm packages to
> install LibreOffice on a machine running Ubuntu or Debian. To do this,
> you need to convert /.rpm/ packages to /.deb/ using the /alien/ tool. To
> install /alien/ on Ubuntu, run the /sudo apt-get install alien /command.
> Grab then the latest release of LibreOffice from the project’s Web site,
> unpack the downloaded /.tar.gz/ archive, rename the resulting directory
> to /libreoffice/, and move it into your home directory. Launch the
> terminal, and switch to the /RPMS/ directory and use /alien/ to convert
> all /.rpm/ packages in the directory:
> 
> 
on the libreoffice site, there were .DEBS for Debian/Ubuntu.. I was able
to download & install them.


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Paul Cartwright
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