Hi,
Thanks for the replies. I didn't mean to ask you how to install
LibreOffice. My point was that installation instructions should be
included with the package and/or in the download page.
Or much better, instead of telling the user what he should type in the
terminal, put it into a script and call it something like "setup".
I usually expect any software I download to automatically install itself
with a click. Which is what usually happens when you use any "popular"
operating system (and distro in the case of gnu/linux).
I'm still a newbie with Ubuntu and I've only used it for a while, but
i've installed a few programs and this was the first time I downloaded a
program and had to _figure out_ how to install it.
By the way the procedure mentioned in the blog article of converting the
RPMs into DEBs with alien doesn't work, it prints a lot of error
messages and doesn't generate the expected debs.
If the most "correct" way to install libreOffice in Ubuntu is from the
debs, then I don't understand why they are not linked to in the main
download page, it's a bit absurd that one has to google for them.
You may argue Ubuntu is just one of many distros, but the same can be
said of.... whatever distro uses RPM packages.
On 10/28/2010 06:01 PM, Frank Esposito wrote:
Ah...no...
I don't think telling a Debian/Ubuntu user to install via RPM is correct.
Please see this page from the mailing list for installing deb packages:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00497.html
The idea about the need for platform packaging has been discussed to great
length here previously.
Bottom line: TMTOWTDI
(There's more than one way to do it)
...but let's go a route that makes sense for the platform involved.
the link I posted had instructions for both. The link you referenced is for
a temorary repository, which works great too!
all you really need to do after downloading and untaring is run the
following command in terminal in both directories
sudo dpkg -i *deb
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