LO4 in repos?

[Alexander Skwar]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 11/02/13 22:29, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/02/13 15:08, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 02/08/2013 03:47 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know if/when LibreOffice 4 will be in the software centre?
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, inquiring minds would like to know. Ric
>>
>> +1
>> Backports is good enough for me as well ;)
>>
>>> Go to the LibreOffice site - http://www.libreoffice.org/download  - and
>>> download LO 4.0.0.3. Follow the instructions on how to install it. All
>>> done
>>> in a fraction of the time taken to write to this list and waiting for an
>>> answer to your question.
>>
>> Well… Depends…
>>
>> Sure, downloading the package from there is done in no time at all.
>> However resolving the "dependency hell" when you want to deinstall
>> libreoffice - this is not done in "no time at all". Not even close to.
>>
>> But, okay, how did you go about it? How did you resolve this
>> "issue"?
>
>
> Good heavens! You have "dependency hell" to contend with?!

You don't?

> All I do is go to the software manager and delete all the current
> libreoffice files (they' be marked as something like, eg, 3.6.4.x); then

Yep and then you get for example gnumeric installed, which I don't want.

> upack the Mail Installer, the Language Package archive (I use GB English)
> and Help archive and install LO.
>
> The only "tricky" bit is to alter the "launch" entry in the Menu list to
> point to the correct directory/folder where the new LO is installed -
> usually /opt/libreoffice<X.XX> .

Nope, it's not. The tricky part is to resolve the dependency hell.

So, again, you said it's a no brainer - how do you resolve that hell?

alexander at ewzw032:~/tmp$ sudo env LC_ALL=C apt-get remove $( dpkg
--get-selections | grep install | grep libreoffice | awk '{print $1}'
)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gnome-control-center-unity gnome-js-common libqt4-webkit libseed-gtk3-0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  abiword abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar
abiword-plugin-mathview fonts-lyx gnome-desktop-data gnumeric
gnumeric-common gnumeric-doc libabiword-2.9 libcolamd2.7.1 libgdome2-0
  libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a libgoffice-0.8-8 libgoffice-0.8-8-common
libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgtkmathview0c2a liblink-grammar4
libloudmouth1-0 libots0 libtidy-0.99-0 libwv-1.2-4
  link-grammar-dictionaries-en lp-solve
Suggested packages:
  gnumeric-plugins-extra docbook-xsl
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common
libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-emailmerge
libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-help-de
libreoffice-help-en-us
  libreoffice-impress libreoffice-l10n-de libreoffice-math
libreoffice-ogltrans libreoffice-pdfimport
libreoffice-presentation-minimizer libreoffice-presenter-console
libreoffice-style-human
  libreoffice-style-tango libreoffice-templates libreoffice-writer
mythes-de mythes-de-ch mythes-en-us python-uno
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  abiword abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar
abiword-plugin-mathview fonts-lyx gnome-desktop-data gnumeric
gnumeric-common gnumeric-doc libabiword-2.9 libcolamd2.7.1 libgdome2-0
  libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a libgoffice-0.8-8 libgoffice-0.8-8-common
libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgtkmathview0c2a liblink-grammar4
libloudmouth1-0 libots0 libtidy-0.99-0 libwv-1.2-4
  link-grammar-dictionaries-en lp-solve
0 upgraded, 25 newly installed, 25 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 312 MB disk space will be freed.


That takes no time? IBTD.


Alexander
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