LibreOffice - pros & cons with Meerkat

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:03 AM, David Nelson <commerce at traduction.biz> wrote:
> Hi, :-)
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 15:49, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Maybe Go-Oo and OpenOffice.org should be considered differently...
> I've successfully installed and used OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
> side by side, during the 3.3 beta phase, using the LibreOffice
> community-supplied downloads. I haven't tried with the repo-provided
> installation (I removed OOo beforehand)...
>
> IIRC, a lot of the stuff from Go-Oo was integrated into LibreOffice,
> and maybe that's the "problem"?
>
> David Nelson
>

Ubuntu's OpenOffice has been in fact Go-Oo for some time. Since "Go-Oo
project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice" that's the way
to go.


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