Hi :) Ahh, That page ;) lol I thought it was good and had been editied recently. I think that one might be best split into a few short sub-pages such as Debian Ubuntu & other Debian family distros Mageia / Mandriva and family Redhat family distros openSUSE distros Slackware Arch Many of those are probably about the same anyway.
On the main page something generic such as "As Root User do ... " and then later a "Now as normal user ... ". I think the only differences between the distros is the file ending (either rpm or deb ie requires yum or dpkg or apt-get) and whether the distro has the "sudo" command by default to avoid needing to use "su" or logging in as Root. Hmm, that does suddenly look complicated but it's really not as bad as i made it sound i'm sure! Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 1/10/11, David Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: From: David Nelson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] About fdo#40162 - Missing section in README_en-US installation instructions To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 1 October, 2011, 11:01 Hi Tom, guys, Yes, it is probably a very good solution to provide links to other external documentation. When I originally re-worked the Linux readme and the Linux installation instructions, I especially had in mind the idea of providing comprehensive instructions for inexpert users. But covering Linux in such instructions is more complicated than other operating systems, because of the multiple distributions that need to be covered. However, I have to admit that the resulting installation guides and the readme probably constitute as much of a barrier to easy installation for a newbie as the complexity (for a newbie) of a command-line installation process. So a re-working is definitely necessary. What we currently have is rather "spaghetti code-like", especially after all the comments at the time were worked into the drafts. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
