Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO for Ubuntu
On Mar 1, 2011, at 04:48 , NoOp wrote: On 02/28/2011 06:52 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 00:50 , NoOp wrote: ... I'd be willing to bet that you have the Ubuntu libreoffice PPA. What do you show for: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep libreoffice Can you also show the output of: $ apt-cache policy libreoffice Thanks, NoOp. I decided to google on it, and discovered that I was lacking a repository in my Synaptic. Fixed that last night, and now I have LioB installed. Must just update it with the UK, Swedish and Chinese dictionaries and stuff. Hope that works for you. Personally, unless I were testing/contributing for Ubuntu, I'd take ZenWiz's advise and install from the libreoffice .debs. I have issues with a PPA/package that insists on uninstalling (or insisting that I uninstall) an existing OOo install simply because the packager can't figure out how to install (or is too lazy to do so) the LO package without affecting existing office packages. I wonder just how many would find it acceptable if the LO PPA also removed all other office packages (Abiword for instance) in the process? Or if the TDF .deb required that you uninstalled your distro OOo before installing. Amazing... Please remember to report issues in launchpad specify that you are running the PPA version. Also, if you report issues here, please do the same (specify that you are running a distro PPA version). My reply was not intended as a rejection of your suggestion, NoOp. It was simply that, in the intervening period, I had manually removed OOo, and managed to find out what I needed to do to get the LibO repository registered in Ubuntu. Amazing, as an aside, how quickly one's knowledge of unix commands disappears when one stops using them. Since I retired I guess about 90% of what was once automatic has evaporated. Since I now have LibO on the machine, albeit from the ppa, I'll see how I get on with that one. I'll test adding the UK, Swedish and Chinese language packs, and see if they find the original US version, and if, so, I'm happy. I'm not in linux all that often nowadays. If not, I'll unload and reload from the LibO site version as you and others have suggested. //James -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO for Ubuntu
On 03/01/2011 05:50 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Mar 1, 2011, at 04:48 , NoOp wrote: On 02/28/2011 06:52 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Feb 28, 2011, at 00:50 , NoOp wrote: snip Thanks, NoOp. I decided to google on it, and discovered that I was lacking a repository in my Synaptic. Fixed that last night, and now I have LioB installed. Must just update it with the UK, Swedish and Chinese dictionaries and stuff. Please do not take this the wrong way. Would you let me know what dictionaries are installed with the UK and Swedish versions of the language packs. There should be only one for the UK but Swedish has a version for Finland as well. I found that one while I added my list of all the known dictionaries on the last three-quarters for the extension page for the North American DVD project. http://www.lungstrom.com/libreoffice-dvd-project/LibreOffice-disc-North-American-DVD/extensions.html I am wondering if the Swedish pack installs the thesaurus, spelling dictionary, and the Finland version. I found these as separate add ons and wonder if the spelling dictionary and thesaurus shows up separately in the Extension Manager. I just got a bug in me about the dictionaries for LibreOffice. When I tested it on my Vista laptop [which I rarely use for office suite work] I used the all language version and installed 5 or more extra languages. It seemed that I got a dictionary for the entire language list in the custom install. Not just the languages I installed, but the whole list. I am glad that we get to choose language packs with Linux, but my Ubuntu desktop keeps giving a dependency error for a .deb that I have installed but it wants en-GB instead of the file name en-gb. So I cannot check out what Linux installs. snip Since I now have LibO on the machine, albeit from the ppa, I'll see how I get on with that one. I'll test adding the UK, Swedish and Chinese language packs, and see if they find the original US version, and if, so, I'm happy. I'm not in linux all that often nowadays. If not, I'll unload and reload from the LibO site version as you and others have suggested. //James -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO for Ubuntu
On Feb 28, 2011, at 00:50 , NoOp wrote: On 02/27/2011 10:01 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:50:01PM +0800, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 20:29, James Wilde james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com wrote: Have I missed something, or is LibO really not to be found amongst the apps available via Synaptic or the new Ubuntu Software Centre? Search for libreoffice rather than LibO... It's there in 10.10... Also in 10.04. I'd be willing to bet that you have the Ubuntu libreoffice PPA. What do you show for: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep libreoffice Can you also show the output of: $ apt-cache policy libreoffice Thanks, NoOp. I decided to google on it, and discovered that I was lacking a repository in my Synaptic. Fixed that last night, and now I have LioB installed. Must just update it with the UK, Swedish and Chinese dictionaries and stuff. //J -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
