2012/8/15 Kay Schenk <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Risto Jääskeläinen > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello! >> First thing first: it is quite well that there are some guides for >> installation Apache OpenOffice to different linux distros. >> But as command line is ancient way of communicate with computer and only >> few PC users today like it, second thing is to have prober normal way of >> install and uninstall AOO in linux too. Is there any other way than have it >> in repository and use Synaptic or other such tools? And there are not >> allowed any incompatibility with other programs like LibreOffice. >> > > I understand! And yet, command line rarely fails me. :) > > We probably could write some installation instructions for the more popular > distros that would show users how to install from the deb or rpm packs > USING whatever their GUI package manager is. I've done that as well instead > of command line. It would take some time to research this. > > > >> >> It may be my angularity with command line etc. but I notice difficulties >> when I try to keep LibreOffice and AOO in same Linux Mint 13. >> > > Well it IS a hassle to try to do this I would imagine. > > I guess what we need to discuss/decide is do we really want to tell people > to uninstall LO before installing AOO? It would be nice if someone could > investigate and report findings on what their experience is with > maintaining both etc. to include in the installation instructions.
The problem is distro specific: on openSUSE you can have the distro LibO + AOO + official LibO together without problems, but on ubuntu and its derivatives, fedora and possibly others you'll have problems with the distro's LibO. The message should be: In general, AOO can be installed side by side with LibreOffice (both suites use different directories). But for some Linux distributions it is not that easy: when they switched from (the heavily modified version of) OOo to the (also modified version of) LibO they packaged their versions of LibO in a way that cause conflicts with OOo or AOO. Notice that these problems are completely artificial and came from some decisions made during packaging: on other distros like openSUSE, this does not happen. Regards Ricardo
