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

[Michael Trausch]

It would likely serve you better to study the way of the UNIX shell... the
UNIX shell has a lot more power than the Windows commandline shell does,
even if you include the so-called "power shell".

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On Mar 15, 2011 6:35 PM, "Ron Frazier" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>
wrote:
> 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 too out of date with patches.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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>> > mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very quickly.)
>> >
>> > Ron Frazier
>> >
>> > 770-205-9422 (O) Leave a message.
>> > linuxdude AT c3energy.com <http://c3energy.com>
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> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
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>
> Ron Frazier
>
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