nautilus + terminal

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

(2011/03/07 7:42), Tony Pursell wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 11:53 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:29:26PM +0000, Tony Pursell wrote:
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>>> I wonder how you installed LibreOffice?  It is not available in the
>>> current version of Ubuntu so you can only install it from a source like
>>> LibreOffice itself.  This means that the instructions you are given do
>>> not necessarily come from Ubuntu.
>> Then why is it in my 10.04 synaptic? I have no repos in my sources.list
>> file other than Ubuntu ones. BTW, I installed it from the Ubuntu repos
>> and later uninstalled it.
>>
> That is interesting! Its not in the 10.10 repos. If what you say is
> true, then it must be down to the new policy of including more upgrades,
> as well as bug fixes, in the LTS versions.
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> If the OP was using 10.04 then, they would have be able to do a simple
> install from synaptic (or even Ubuntu Software Centre).
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> Tony
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Thank you all.
Installation of LibreOffice was not really soo difficult. I did that on 
one machine running 10.04 and one 10.10.
I downloaded the file from the official website, unpacked that file 
someplace and then had to run this "dpkg" command. (according to the 
instructions for installing LO for Ubuntu).

The problem/nuisance (to my taste) is just that I have to "change 
directory".
In a terminal I have to type $ cd 
.................................................................. which 
goes on forever.
Being able to simply right-click on a certain folder and run the "dpkg" 
command seems a lot easier to me  ... and being basically lazy I would 
prefer the "easy way".
I will try the extension later in the day.