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

[Geoffrey Myers]

Michael Trausch wrote:
> More accurately "cmd > file", because that's redirection of stdout, not 
> a pipe...

It was a joke.  I perfectly understand the difference between a pipe and 
a redirection.  Did you read the comment after it?

> 
> --
> Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!
> 
> On Mar 15, 2011 4:02 PM, "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com 
> <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
>  > Jim Kinney wrote:
>  >> vs. cmd1; cmd2 which is run command 1 then command 2 regardless of
>  >> end status of 1
>  >>
>  >> or cmd1 | cmd2 while take stdout of cmd1 and stdin for cmd2
>  >>
>  >> or...
>  >
>  > cmd1 > cmd2
>  >
>  > which writes the output of cmd1 to cmd2. Hopefully your cmd2 was not in
>  > this directory when you did this. :)
>  >
>  >>
>  >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us 
> <mailto:mike at trausch.us>> 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 too out of date with patches.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?
>  >>>>>>>
>  >>>>>>>
>  >>>>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>> --
>  >>>>
>  >>>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might 
> want to
>  >>>> call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate 
> energy
>  >>>> 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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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson