On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 03:35:15 -0700 > Jose R R <jose....@metztli.com> wrote: > >> Niltze- >> >> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Hagar Delest <hagar.del...@laposte.net> >> wrote: >> > Le 19/04/2014 01:53, Kay Schenk a écrit : >> > >> >> Ok, maybe the subject is bit melodramatic but after some of the twisted >> >> things we read about, basically how non-supportive either AOO is of >> >> Linux, >> >> or Linux is non-supportive of AOO, here's what I'm thinking. >> >> >> >> 1) We do a blog whose main subject is AOO and Linux and interview some of >> >> our Linux volunteers/users (hopefully a nice dstro cross section -- >> >> Fedora, Ubuntu. openSUSE, Mint?) and ask them why they're using AOO and >> >> how >> >> did they find the installation given that it isn't available in their >> >> existing repositories. >> >> >> >> -- or -- >> >> >> >> 2) We do a Linux centered blog on what support we provide for Linux, what >> >> Linux packages AOO provides wtih additional distribution details, and why >> >> they're not in repositories for distributions. On the latter point, I'm >> >> thinking talk about whose job this is, etc. >> >> >> >> I think we really should do something a bit more visible on this topic, >> >> and >> >> hopefully some of the open source press can pick it up. >> >> >> >> Thoughts? >> >> >> > IMHO, most users just take what's provided by default. Unless it is too >> > buggy. >> > So I think that basically, we are back to the question: why AOO is still >> > not >> > available in the standard packages? >> > >> > As long as it is not easily available, users won't bother removing another >> > application to install AOO. Especially if it involves command line (to >> > install but also sometimes to remove the default suite). >> [..] >> >> On an initial Debian installation, if GNOME is selected, it will >> install LO by default. >> >> Accordingly the burden falls on the user to remove LO: >> >> $ sudo su >> $ apt-get purge libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-common >> libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk >> libreoffice-impress libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-math >> libreoffice-writer > > I have no experience with Debian as a distro, only with Debian derivatives > such as Ubuntu. As far as I know, it is only necessary to > sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-core > to remove all libreoffice, before installing OpenOffice. > Indeed, it picks up most (if not all) of the relevant packages, I just make sure that all, and not only LO core, is *purged*.
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