LibreOffice - pros & cons with Meerkat

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:28 AM, David Nelson <commerce at traduction.biz> wrote:
> Hi, :-)
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 14:22, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> On 26/01/2011 17:08, Brian Clarkson wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. It was your post that alerted me to the availability of LibreOffice
>>> (previously  I was unaware of it)./
>>> /
>>> 2. the next URL and the following one both suggest the need to remove Open
>>> Office before installing LibreOffice:
>
> It is not *necessary* to remove OpenOffice.org before installing
> LibreOffice. They can currently happily exist side by side.
>
>>> I have no idea how credible these URL´s are but I couldn´t find much
>>> guidance on the LibreOffice website that meant much to me.  I liked their
>>> enthusiasm but wasn´t sure how to rate it.
>>>
>>> Brian/
>>
>> But if you have a look you will find that both articles were written many
>> days ago (one is 5 January and the other 12 January) - when LO was a
>> (?)Beta.
>>
>> The URL I provided points you to the LO site which gives you all the
>> up-to-date information on how to install LO on your system (be it Ubuntu et
>> al, or Windows, or MAC). All the information is there :-) : one is not
>> spoon-fed but one does need to spend a bit of time reading the instructions
>
> As one of the guys working on the http://libreoffice.org website, I
> just wanted to say that we'll be updating the Linux installation
> instructions.
>
> The writing of those instructions was complicated by the attempt to
> cover multiple Linux distribs (I was the guy that wrote them). I'll be
> looking at a way to improve that content as soon as I get time.
>


Libreoffice .deb release from the main site installs at /opt, side by
side with OO, but in my Maverick 64
failed to create shortcuts on Aplications/Office.

Libreoffice from the PPA, 1:3.3.0~rc4-1 (the only active repo I found
for Mav.) indeed demands removal of regular OpenOffice (in fact
Go-Oo). Nevertheless, once installed it seems to work well.

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L M Nicolosi, Eng.
GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/
Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64