RE: whats the best way to upgrade openoffice in 7.04?

2008-04-24 Thread Greg Reagle
rant I'd love to see a master config file where you can specify defaults for all users, It is a standard convention for Unix programs to have the global config file in /etc and user settings in their home directories. Too bad Open Office doesn't respect this convention. Have you filed a bug

Re: whats the best way to upgrade openoffice in 7.04?

2008-04-23 Thread john
Strange but true. There doesn't appear to be a back port of OpenOffice. I don't understand why perhaps someone else has an idea about this? I finally used this howto: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16t=68 Which points out you must uninstall the older version

RE: whats the best way to upgrade openoffice in 7.04?

2008-04-22 Thread Greg Reagle
I recommend Ubuntu Backports. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports. -- greg reagle | computer technician, system administrator | community it innovators - CITI | 202-234-1600 ext. 353 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:edubuntu-users- [EMAIL

Re: whats the best way to upgrade openoffice in 7.04?

2008-04-22 Thread john
Thank you Greg, I never understood what the back-ports repository was for before. I appreciate the pointer. John On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Greg Reagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recommend Ubuntu Backports. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports. -- greg reagle |

Re: whats the best way to upgrade openoffice in 7.04?

2008-04-22 Thread Asmo Koskinen
Greg Reagle kirjoitti: I recommend Ubuntu Backports. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports. There is no updated OpenOffice for 7.04? http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty-backports/allpackages?format=txt.gz Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. -- edubuntu-users mailing list

Re: whats the best way to upgrade openoffice in 7.04?

2008-04-18 Thread john
Thanks very much Asmo. John On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Asmo Koskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: john kirjoitti: Can anyone tell me the the preferred path for an upgrade? Remove old OOo and install new one from OOo deb-package. http://download.openoffice.org/other.html Linux

whats the best way to upgrade openoffice in 7.04?

2008-04-17 Thread john
Hi all, I'd like to upgrade my ltsp users to the latest stable openoffice version. The repos are apparently not tracking upgrades for OO. Can anyone tell me the the preferred path for an upgrade? Thanks! John -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: whats the best way to upgrade openoffice in 7.04?

2008-04-17 Thread Asmo Koskinen
john kirjoitti: Can anyone tell me the the preferred path for an upgrade? Remove old OOo and install new one from OOo deb-package. http://download.openoffice.org/other.html Linux deb package works just fine with Ubuntu. Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. -- edubuntu-users mailing list