Tom, On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 11:39 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> 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 :) > Actually the install procedure for Linux is very similar for each distribution, it is the details that make it sound difficult: sudo vs su, etc. Another option is to right click and use "Open With" and select the Software Installer/Package Manager. This probably better for newbies. > > --- 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 > > -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- 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
