I have kubuntu Natty installed and with to change from libreoffice to openoffice

[Thomas Olsen]

On Sunday 05 June 2011 15:55:17 O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 05/06/2011 14:41, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 June 2011 09:16:46 O. Sinclair wrote:
> >> On 05/06/2011 04:34, Waleed Hamra wrote:
> >>> On 06/03/2011 05:20 PM, Paul Stear wrote:
> >>>> On Friday 03 Jun 2011 15:15:44 Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> >>>>> Paul,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> On 3 June 2011 15:09, Paul Stear<linux at appjaws.plus.com>   wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>> How can I disable libreoffice and use openoffice?
> >>>>>> I have tried using software management but to install openoffice it
> >>>>>> installs libreoffice instead..
> >>>>>> libreoffice will not save my complicated spreadshhets.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Libreoffice is a rebadged OpenOffice and identical to functionality
> >>>>> for the same release at the moment. It was forked a couple of months
> >>>>> ago and kept in line with the source code released by Oracle. Oracle
> >>>>> has just tried to abandon OpenOffice and dump it on Apache but it's
> >>>>> not certain if Apache will pick it up or not.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thanks for that, How do I resolve my problem of saving a spreadsheet?
> >>>> When I try and save the program just crashes.
> >>>> Paul
> >>> 
> >>> does the file name include a space? does the full ath of the folder
> >>> you're saving in, contain a space? if so, remove it, this is known to
> >>> crash it. otherwise... a little more information is going to be needed
> >>> to help you out here.
> >> 
> >> I also get problems with any document, spreadsheet etc if they contain
> >> special characters with umlauts - I am from Sweden and we have åöä - if
> >> any of those are in the filename I can not even open it without renaming
> >> first
> > 
> > That's embarrasing for LibreOffice. Kind of a 101 in file handling.
> 
> as far as I can remember I had the same with OpenOffice in 10.10 so I
> kind of suspect something to do with Kubuntu actually..

AFAIK both OpenOffice and LibreOffice are very monolithic and takes care of 
everything on OS level. No KDE applications has problems with spaces or 
umlauts in paths.

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Thomas Olsen

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