Problem solved
Andreas,
Well, I forgot my final step - change my launch menu LO item to issue the
command libreoffice4.4 %U (from libreoffice4.3 %U.) Fixing that, all is
well.
(That systray autostart thing is long gone on my system!)
My mistake!
Thanks for your quick response,
Hi :)
Congrats Tom! Nicely done Andreas!
Thanks for teaching me something there too Andreas. That is the sort of
thing i joined the mailing list for = to learn about practical problems
that people who are not experts in LibreOffice (but probably do have
expertise elsewhere) could easily run
Hi :)
There's a tiny gotcha in there that i only noticed because i have done
the same thing myself. It's the . in
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*.*
Try again but this time without the extra * and the . before it;
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*
Not all *nix files have a file-ending and dot.
Getting a little off-topic, but...
Even more confusingly for Windows users, in some contexts on Windows *.*
matches all files, even those without any extension at all (similarly,
libreoffice*.* would match all files starting libreoffice, even if
they don't contain a dot or extension). I think
Hi :)
Yeh, it looks like Tom C's libreoffice*.* does affect all the
libreoffice files in linux too, also including ones without a dot. I
thought i had spotted something but it didn't work in the way i'd expected
after all.
Apols and regards from
Tom :)
On 17 April 2015 at 21:38,
Am 17.04.2015 um 06:58 schrieb Tom Cloyd:
I'm running Kubuntu Linux - latest version, fully updated.
I just downloaded LibreOffice_4.4.2_Linux_x86_deb.tar.gz and its
associated helpfile. I removed all other *.tar.gz files from my software
download archive.
I removed my previous LO
