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

[Jeff Hubbs]

Massive snippage follows:

On 3/15/11 9:57 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
>
> a) I first tried the Linux way.  I looked for LibreOffice in the Ubuntu
> software center and in Synaptic.  No luck.
I respectfully submit that you did not first try the Linux way.  You 
started off by trying the Ubuntu way.  The Linux way would have 
incorporated first choosing Linux distributions with well-managed 
packaging systems (by "managed" here I mean the human kind, where people 
make decisions and do things).

In Gentoo Linux, we do this:

# emerge --sync
# emerge libreoffice-bin

and we're done (as signified by the "-bin", this is a binary package 
that is now at version 3.3.1; the package 
app-office/libreoffice-3.3.2_rc1 that will build the app from source 
when emerged is still masked by ~amd64 keyword, meaning it's still in 
testing but it probably works if you felt like unmasking it.

This inflects the thrust of what you're trying to get at, i.e., "why 
does Linux have to be this hard?" when really the question should be 
"why isn't a LibreOffice installation package well sorted out for/by 
Ubuntu/Canonical?"  Linux <> Ubuntu.  Linux <> Red Hat.  Linux <> CentOS.