On 16/03/11 09:00, Peter Merchant wrote:
Be careful - I downloaded and installed this a few moments ago, and now
I don't have an Office suite.
Still investigating, was in the middle of marking, I think I'll try and
revert to the old version for now.
Peter
Hi Peter-
Not sure where you got your OOo 3.3.0 from, or what distro you are
using, but I follow the Archlinux developer list, and there was
discussion there about replacing OOo with LibreOffice completely. For a
while, both have been available, but the maintainer was suggesting
adding a "replaces" tag to the LO packages to make them remove the OOo ones.
His reasons I quote here:-
"LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle
OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos."
"Then there's the poor distribution support Oracle spends on the
distributions. They almost do not care about custom distribution builds
and their interest. They break the build against system libs
every now and then and it takes ages to contact the relevant devs to
fix their bugs. Development is only driven by the profit interests of
Oracle... You can put in here all the arguments the Document foundation
has given at its birth."
He goes on:-
"So don't expect any efforts to fix bugs in Oracle packages anymore. As
soon as they will break due to a .so name bump or something like this
I'll remove all the packages from our repos if nobody else is willing
to maintain them."
Perhaps this indicates that you'd be better trying a LibreOffice package
if one is available for your platform?
All the best,
John
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