<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 February 2011 10:30, alan c <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aeclist@candt.waitrose.com">aeclist@candt.waitrose.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 19/02/11 06:05, Hassan "Haz" Williamson wrote:<br>
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@Mac, Thanks for that. Interesting read. Personally I'm going where the<br>
developers are, I have a feeling that Oracle might try to swing things to<br>
their favour and might close down some aspects of OOo - either that or try<br>
to incorporate their own proprietary database system in somehow. I could be<br>
wrong, but that's just my opinion of it.<br>
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@Liam, You could have saved yourself some heart ache by just installing<br>
LibreOffice with the PPA. If I recall the PPA supports 10.04, 10.10 and<br>
11.04. I'll list the commands for it below for you:<br>
<br>
<br>
*sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa*<br>
*<br>
*<br>
*sudo apt-get update*<br>
*<br>
*<br>
*sudo apt-get install libreoffice*<br>
<br>
<br>
If your using gnome, then also run this for it to integrate better:<br>
<br>
<br>
*sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome*<br>
<br>
<br>
For KDE:<br>
<br>
*sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde*<br>
<br>
<br>
There is an article somewhere on <a href="http://omgubuntu.co.uk" target="_blank">omgubuntu.co.uk</a> about this. I'll link it at<br>
the end for reference. This will install LibreOffice just like any other<br>
application you'd find in the ubuntu repo's. So you'll get your menu item,<br>
document file type associations, etc... Enjoy :).<br>
<br>
I really don't understand why the one on the LibreOffice website is so<br>
complicated to try and get it to work. It might scare some people away from<br>
using it, which would be a shame. I'm sure they'll make it easier as time<br>
passes though.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps you out, and hopefully others who many be having trouble<br>
getting LibreOffice to work.<br>
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Is there anything significant preventing LO being put into the Ubuntu Software Centre? When LO gets into Ubuntu as it will, in 11.04, I will certainly use it, but my tech experience level is not really sufficient to effortlessly manage PPAs and the possible complication of the existing Open Office too.<br>
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If LO was to be available in the Ubuntu Software Centre then I would use it now.<br><font color="#888888">
-- <br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would guess that it's Canonical policy: the office suite is seen as a core component in Desktop and as such is maintained.OO and LO probably don't exactly coexist in Linux so having one or the other is a practical consideration as well as a policy decision.</div>
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