Open Office Quick Start

[David Teague]

I asked:

> > Has anyone found an OpenOffice.org Quick Start for 
> > Ubuntu or other Debian based distribution?

Peter Garrett: 
> Yes. You just enable the "universe" repository in Ubuntu 
> 
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AddingRepositoriesHowto
> 
> and install:
>  
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install ooqstart-gnome 

I asked
> > Anyone have experience with such an applet that actually 
> > works well? 

Peter Garrett responds:
> Yup. Got it running in Warty on both PPC and i386. Only issue I see is
> it sometimes crashes on logout, which really doesn't matter anyway...
> Just right click the Gnome panel after installing it and choose it, then
> configure it by right click and ticking the box to apply it in the
> applet preferences.

I'm curious. Please tell me more in detail exactly what crashes when 
you logout. 

If my supposition is correct that "it" is the ooqstart-gnome applet, 
then this happens on logout, so who cares? You are through with 
your work for the time being, and the ooqstart-gnome can be set 
to be automatically loaded on log-in. Is this right?

Thanks, your reply induced me to spend some time reading the 
Ubuntu sites. I found the packages repository, 
packages.ubuntu.com, and other information.

I am going to really like Ubuntu. I have a friend who has used 
most Linux distributions since the first days of Soft Landing 
Systems  (SLS) and the earliest Slackware. He prefers Debian 
and distributions derived from Debian. He says Ubuntu is the 
best of the lot. 

Thanks you and all who responded to this question.

David Teague,  http://cs.wcu.edu/~dbt 
Advocating Free Software and Double Bass tuned in fifths
www.dennismasuzzo.com;  www.silviodallatorre.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Garrett" <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Open Office Quick Start


> On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 09:33 -0400, David Teague wrote:
> > Has anyone found an OpenOffice.org Quick Start for 
> > Ubuntu or other Debian based distribution?
> 
> Yes. You just enable the "universe" repository in Ubuntu 
> 
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AddingRepositoriesHowto
> 
> and install:
>  
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install ooqstart-gnome 
> > 
> > A Google search for OpenOffice.org Quick Start locates 
> > references to QS for Gnome and KDE. 
> > 
> > Here is a URL for one such applet:
> > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-ooqs/
> > but the author says it isn't 100% yet.
> 
> I don't think you need to worry about this
> > 
> > Anyone have experience with such an applet that actually 
> > works well? 
> 
> Yup. Got it running in Warty on both PPC and i386. Only issue I see is
> it sometimes crashes on logout, which really doesn't matter anyway...
> Just right click the Gnome panel after installing it and choose it, then
> configure it by right click and ticking the box to apply it in the
> applet preferences.
> 
> > Especially with Ubuntu or KUbuntu? That 
> > will help me to decide whether to go with Ubuntu 
> > (Gnome) or KUbuntu (KDE).
> 
> A similar quickstart applet is available for KDE, I believe
> 
> peter at panarchy:~ $ apt-cache search open office quickstart
> oooqs-kde - OpenOffice.org QuickStarter applet for KDE
> ooqstart-gnome - OpenOffice.org QuickStarter applet for GNOME 2
> 
> In Tools >> Options >> Memory >> Graphics Cache (in OOo)
> increase the available memory (I use 128MB - it will depend on your set
> up but it definitely needs increasing).
> 
> > 
> > David Teague,  http://cs.wcu.edu/~dbt 
> > Advocating Free Software and Double Bass tuned in fifths
> > www.dennismasuzzo.com;  www.silviodallatorre.com
> > www.joelquarrington.com/;  For information on Red  Mitchell, 
> > http://home.teleport.com/~mimuma/;  www.larryholloway.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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