LibreOffice Install and Use Problems

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2016, 22:29 +0200 schrieb Xen:

> 
> I furthermore doubt it is even possible, even remotely possible, that
> it 
> would be a problem with the libreoffice packages. But Mint is so
> similar 
> that it is also unlikely that the package itself would cause
> problems. 
> They are just not that different I think.
> 
> However, who knows. If you cannot report it on the Linux Mint
> forums, 
> I'm not sure there is a way to get help. Regards.
> 
linux mint patches a bunch of core libraries without re-building the
dependencies on top (gtk for example), they also hold back a bunch of
updates by default and mark them "dangerous" to the user (kernel, xorg,
grub etc). 

whatever results from this is definitely not supportable on an ubuntu
list ... mint isnt a flavour like {x,k,l,ed}ubuntu{-mate} where distro
 changes are collaboratively made in the archive and used by everyone
with the same results, there are modifications in mint nobody but the
mint team knows about. 
this is similar to mixing pure debian binary packages without re-
building against the libs with ubuntu, the result is a matter of luck
and nobody at debian would be able support this either if you came to a
debian list asking about the probs you have with such a setup.

it is fine if a mint user can actually track down the issue to an
ubuntu error to then file a bug in launchpad, no doubt. but first you
have to make sure the downstream changes have not caused the issue and
this is beyond the scope of this list.

ciao
	oi
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