[ubuntu-za] Open Office help

Wesley Werner wesley.werner at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 09:33:05 UTC 2011


Hi Wikus,

Run the application within a terminal, it should spit out some error 
messages as the error occurs, it may help track down the problem.

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Starting_Writer#Starting_from_the_command_line

Let us know what you find.

On 2011/04/28 10:41, wikus at cheetah-microsystems.com wrote:
>
> Hallo William ,
>
> I already tried that. It didn't help at all and I still had the same 
> issue in Libre as well (freezes when saving a document)
>
> At the end of the day after trying many things I just switched to 
> Abiword and Gnumetric and both work like a dream.
>
> - Wikus
>
> *----- Original Message -----*
> *From:* William Walter Kinghorn [mailto:williamk at dut.ac.za]
> *To:* ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Sent:* Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:07:04 +0200
> *Subject:* Re: [ubuntu-za] Open Office help
>
> Hi wikus,
>
> If you can, do this
>
> This will install LibreOffice version 3.3.2, and possibly remove 
> OpenOffice ( LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, and is part of 
> Ubuntu Natty )
>
> Add this to your sources.list file ( /etc/apt/sources.list )
>
> # LibreOffice PPA
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
>
> Change maverick to lucid if you are using 10.04
>
> Open Synaptic ( System ->Administration->Synaptic Package Management
>
> Hit the reload button ( top left ), this will load the required file 
> in the PPA
>
> Look for Libreoffice, and install ( If you don't know how - 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto )
>
> Hope this helps
> William
>
>



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