Hi, With this script you can install LibO into operating systems baseds in Debian: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KAMOM0A3 To download .deb packages: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/3.3.0-beta2/deb/
More help, in Spanish: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ES/instalar-como-usuario-Linux#En_Debian_y_derivados 2010/10/28 Matteo Sisti Sette <[email protected]> > 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 >> >> > > -- > E-mail to > [email protected]<documentation%[email protected]>for > instructions on how to unsubscribe > List archives are available at > http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Juan Antonio Castro García -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
