Open Office and / or Libre Office

[LinuxIsOne]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:


> I don't know, in all honesty - I've only ever had one installed at a
> time.
>
> LibreOffice isn't a completely different project to OpenOffice.org.
> It's a 'fork', which basically means an organisation (the Open Document
> Foundation in this instance) takes the project, renames it, and starts
> developing it themselves.
>
> This means that a huge amount of the internals remain the same - all
> that changes is what the ODF feel needs to change. If the guts of the
> thing are fine, then those might not be changed at all. If the initial
> project was well designed, it should be easy to run the original and
> its fork side-by side with no problems, but by several accounts, this
> isn't the case with LibreOffice. Perhaps, though, this has changed
> recently.
>
> Maybe try running them side-by side and see how it goes? It's just
> worth bearing in mind that it might go a bit wrong if you do that.
>

Well then I just unintall OO prior to install LO from PPA. So uninstalling
OO is fine but when I install LO from PPA and upgrade in April, then at
that time what would happen of this PPA since LO is there in 12.04 in the
main repos only and I have already added this PPA by that time...?
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