[ubuntu-uk] OpenOffice 3.0 repositories for Hardy
Rob Beard
rob at esdelle.co.uk
Tue Oct 21 16:03:28 BST 2008
Alan Pope wrote:
> 2008/10/21 Bruce Beardall <bruce72 at gmail.com>:
>> Tombuntu is usually pretty good with his How-to instructions.
>>
>> http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/10/14/install-openofficeorg-30-in-ubuntu-804-and-810/
>>
>
> Shame he relegates the fact that removing OO.o 2.4 removes
> ubuntu-desktop, and thus will in all likelyhood break the next upgrade
> you do to a throwaway comment "so don't do this if you want to be able
> to upgrade Ubuntu to a new major version."
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
I managed to remove OpenOffice 2.4 by removing OpenOffice.org-core and
it didn't seem to remove Ubuntu-Desktop :-)
Saying that when I upgrade I generally wipe everything and install from
scratch as I tend to install a whole load of un-needed stuff when I play
with things.
Rob
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