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

[Ron Frazier]

Hi Jeff,

I see what you're saying. For now, though, Ubuntu is my only exposure to 
Linux. Maybe I'll get to try more flavors later.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 03/15/2011 10:48 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 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.
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