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

[Ron Frazier]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the info.  That's good to know.  Putting that in my saved 
posts folder.  Thanks also to others who suggested command ganging 
techniques.

Ron

On 03/15/2011 02:49 PM, Michael Trausch 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.
>
> --
> Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!
>
> On Mar 15, 2011 1:57 PM, "Ron Frazier" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com 
> <mailto: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 too out of date with patches.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?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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> >
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