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

[Ron Frazier]

OOOH. Very sneaky!

Ron

On 03/11/2011 08:49 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> With opensuse, it happens transparently with the 11.3 =>  11.4 upgrade.
>
> Windows loses.
>
>
> On 3/11/11, Ron Frazier<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I just got LibreOffice installed in Linux.  I got it done.  But, it was
>> much more difficult than it should have been.  These are problems the
>> developers must fix if they want wide acceptance of Linux outside of the
>> ubergeeks.
>>
>> Steps to remove OpenOffice on Windows:
>>
>> 01) Access programs and features menu.
>> 02) Select OpenOffice and click uninstall.
>>
>> Steps to remove OpenOffice on Linux:
>>
>> 01) Access the software center
>> 02) Select OpenOffice word processor and click remove.
>> 03) Select OpenOffice spreadsheet and click remove.
>> 04) Select OpenOffice database and click remove.
>> 05) Select OpenOffice presentation and click remove.
>> 06) And do the same for 1 or 2 more.
>> 07) Access Synaptic package manager.
>> 08) Search for openoffice.
>> 09) Filter by installed programs only.
>> 10) Manually select each of about a half dozen items and select complete
>> removal and apply.
>>
>> Steps to install LibreOffice on Windows:
>>
>> 01) Download and save the installer.
>> 02) Double click it.
>> 03) Follow the prompts.
>>
>> Steps to install LibreOffice on Linux:
>>
>> 01) Download and save a main tar ball.
>> 02) Double click on it to extract it.
>> 03) Download and save a help tar ball.
>> 04) Double click on it to extract it.
>> 05) Go find and double click on readme file and read it.
>> 06) Open terminal and manually change to a very long path name directory
>> for the main set of files.
>> 07) Change to the DEBS directory.
>> 08) Implement the sudo dpkg command with specific syntax from the readme
>> file.
>> 09) Change to the desktop integration directory.
>> 10) Implement the sudo dpkg command again.
>> 11) Change to the help files DEBS directory.
>> 12) Implement the sudo dpkg command again.
>>
>> Windows wins the least pain in the butt contest with this hands down.
>> This is utterly ridiculous.  If I were to recommend to a family member
>> or friend that they use Linux and try to explain the procedure to
>> install an application like this, they'd laugh me right out of the house
>> and say they'll just stick with Windows.  Now, obviously, I CAN do all
>> these things, and I DID, and I WILL on my other PC's, but I shouldn't
>> HAVE to.
>>
>> Also, this should have been in the Ubuntu repositories, or LibreOffice
>> should provide a repository of their own.  As far as I know, I
>> completely bypassed the Synaptic / Apt package manager.  So, does anyone
>> know how I can get Synaptic / Apt to understand that his new application
>> is there and auto update it?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
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