Hi, gang! Summary (before I get wildly off-topic) -- Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work...
Okay... keep reading at your own peril. ;) You were warned. :) I have had an interesting month. For a while now, I have been cron'ing a backup of ~ to my 2T USB drive, as well as forcing myself to remember to do most of my work on the USB. I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 maverick to Ubuntu 11.04 natty (I was surprised one night by Update Manager, so I let it upgrade to natty), and things quickly started going completely _batty_! (I chose a word that rhymed with natty... although a few curse words were what originally came to mind). I almost freaked when the upgrade started deleting all of my apps, and only replacing some of them apps in natty, and I really was nervous when it replace OoO with LO. LO is now my standard suite on Linux and Windows, and I'm still "converting" others from M$ to OoO and now LO in Windoze. So I went to natty Gnome2 and LO... tried to install Gnome3 for Evolution... very bad idea. Gnome3 would not display so I had to install natty Xfce. natty Xfce just wouldn't do some things that I was used to in Gnome2 (like mount my darn 2T USB), and I lost all of my Evolution email archives, so I installed KDE and swiched to kdm... hoping to magically "find" my evolution email structure somewhere. I somehow ended up booting Xubuntu, and using kdm/KDE... I'm not sure how I did it. Apparently, all of my Gnome2 programs were still there, but I had to find them and run them from the commandline... until I started figuring out how to add items to the menu... yet I just wasn't satisfied with KDE. One or two massive updates, and long unstable boots watching Xbuntu . . . . ... I said time to go back to LTE plus PPAs. KDE was still was not as strong as Gnome2... so I punted and called it a wash! I re-installed the last LTE which was Lucid 10.04.3. Found out that you have to amputate and donate your left forearm to science in order to install LO on Lucid, especially when Lucid is fresh. I added the LO PPA, and compiled one "sudo apt-get install" for LO including all of the "Suggested" packages (sort of as an exercise to see how many packages I had to install. The only meta package (LO) didn't include msttcore-whatever or Java-anything... I know that my final all-in-one install for LO and all that it needed was more that a single 23x80 Terminal screen could display... not to mention the research for "no candidate for this package" that I had to research. During the install of LO, dpkg couldn't find some script files or something, and dpkg was wonky on a couple of installs of Firefox 6 or Thunderbird 6... It eventually cleared up again and is working right... I say ALL of that to say -- Ubuntu is probably the most flexible platform for installing things... from synaptic apt-get aptitude dpkg to yum rfm packages. I'm just glad that I was able to get back up and running... and install LO into lucid (along with other apps)... all in less than a week. :) I've given up on evolution, when I can to what I need in TB-enig-Sunbird. Oh, you might have figured out, encryption is an important thing to me, by my last statement. Thank you for a great app in LO... Keep up the great work... so people will stop asking me to download an illegal copy of MS Office for them. ;( -- Barry Smith e [email protected] w http://bit.ly/l8QJup -- For 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
