Open Office and / or Libre Office

[Avi Greenbury]

LinuxIsOne wrote:

> 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...?

As part of the upgrade to 12.04, that PPA would be disabled, but
LibreOffice left installed. 

If the version of LibreOffice you have installed at that point is newer
than the one in 12.04, it is left alone. 

If the version you have installed at that point is older than the one
in 12.04, it is upgraded to the one in 12.04

You would then need to manually re-enable that PPA if you wish to carry
on using it (if, for example, you're running a newer version than that
in 12.04 and would like to stay ahead of it).

If you want to make sure you're running the 12.04 version of
LibreOffice, you can either uninstall it immediately prior to the
upgrade, or downgrade it afterwards. I think you can do downgrading in
Synaptic, but on the command line it is

apt-get install <package-name>=<version>

If, when the time comes, this is what you want to do, it would be best
to ask then - we don't yet know what version will ship in 12.04, and
it's possible that package names will change in the interim.

-- 
Avi