On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:56:35 -0700 Kenneth Mcfarland <[email protected]> wrote:
> In further thought there is also the possibility of using sudo dpkg > --force-all -i *.deb which could possibly leave LibreOffice working, > although in my personal opinion no situation would arise where I would need > both suites. I have run into one situation where I might require both suites. If preparing an Impress presentation, Impress in LibreOffice is more flexible with regard to using multimedia (in my case, video) inserts. With OpenOffice I have for a long time (and many configurations of the underlying O.S., in my case Xubuntu) not been able to take video clips directly - I have had to resort to linking to the O.S. video player, but this renders the presentation rather clunky. Other than that, when I install a fresh linux (usually Xubuntu) I use sudo apt purge libreoffice* and then install OpenOffice. Rory > > Hopefully someone else has some input on this as my intent is just to ease > installation for anyone doing what I did twenty minutes ago. > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Kenneth Mcfarland < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello OpenOffice Team > > > > Nice work! I kicked LibreOffice to the curb today after seeing the twitter > > posting. It's great to be back and use Apache being a contributor to other > > projects. > > > > Anyways, there is one small thing that could make peoples lives easier. > > Here is my use case: > > > > I run Ubuntu 16.04 which comes with Libre, a lot of other people who are > > thrifty or love linux could be in my situation. The install notes that the > > path /usr/bin/soffice needs to be removed but this is *not* enough. Even > > after removing it, there will be errors during installation the generic > > "error /usr/bin/soffice libreoffice blah blah error". > > > > One needs to sudo apt-get -f remove libreoffice-common or the install will > > fail. I know, I just finished. Here is the ubuntu board I found during my > > search. First reply. > > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/382041/dpkg-error- > > processing-openoffice4-0-debian-menus-4-0-9714-all-deb > > > > It would simply be nice if the en_US installation directory contained a > > file called INSTALL that concisely pointed this out as I did read the > > readmes both of them. The HTML version does a lot better job pointing this > > out, but is still insufficient as described above. > > > > I would be happy to do the work of correcting this if nobody else can. > > > > Sincerely, > > Kenneth McFarland > > > > -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
