On 29/03/14 23:18, Mark Trickett wrote: > Hello Alan, > > On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 22:30 +1100, Allan Duncan wrote: >> On 28/03/14 13:28, Carl Turney wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I'm trying to upgrade my LibreOffice from 4.0.2.2 to 4.2.2, on my Ubuntu >>> 10.4 Desktop. >> ... >> >> Umm, I come from the world of rpms but the principle is the same: >> >> Download the .debs from LibreOffice (in tar'd and zip'd form) unpack >> them and use whatever command it is to do the install. Not synaptic - >> it might be possible to point it at local stuff but I have no idea how. >> Use the command line utility - apt-install or something like that. > > No need to unpack, and putting in the right directory, apt-get will just > find and unpack, although I think that there are also ways to tell it to > just look locally. The .deb is an archive anyway. Much the same is also > true of an .rpm, one archive file, compressed I seem to remember, with > everything included. The .deb will also include preinstall and > postinstall scripts, along with similar for the uninstall if required. > The inclusion and effectiveness is almost fascist in the way they are > required, and required to actually work, to the benefit of the user.
No, the files from LibreOffice are tars of a stack of .deb's or .rpm's. I don't know if there is a front end for apt-* to handle that. With the rpm version I spend a little time to unpack the three tars (main, help and language) into a single directory, delete three rpms that don't apply to me, then point rpm at them and it does all its magic and I have the latest edition long before Redhat has gone through its tweaking and validation process. I _ought to_ make a script to do it, but... _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
