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

[Michael Trausch]

Yes, I did. But there are some that would not understand.

Actually it seems tha UNIX humor in general is dying. More and more people
really don't get it.

Sad.

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On Mar 16, 2011 7:44 AM, "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
wrote:
> 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
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>> > the pretense of taking care of them."
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