LibreOffice Installation Question

[Barry Premeaux]

I was looking over the installation instructions for LibreOffice on
www.ubuntugeek.com.  The instructions say that you need to remove
Openoffice, along with the command to do that.  But, then it follows
with the statement that removing Openoffice is optional.  I find this
to be somewhat confusing.  Is it necessary or not?

I have Ubuntu 9.10 on this machine and would like to hang on to the
default Openoffice.  If I install LibreOffice, will I run into
problems with shared files?  I recall the recent debate on this issue.
 But, their didn't seem to be a positive final answer on it.  The
ubuntugeek article references the test version, and I would be
installing the 3.3 final.

Barry