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

[william witt]

I would not recommend (to a non geek) replacing open office with libre
office on linux anyway.  The distribution probably didn't ship the straight
oracle version, but instead bundled the go-oo version.  My understanding is
that the go-oo plugins (mostly by Novel) are the major difference between oo
and lo anyway.

Will

On Mar 11, 2011 7:11 PM, "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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