Hi :)
Ahh great.  I just don't know my way around Unity yet.  Anyway using the same 
tool you used before sounds like a good option ;)  

Oh, if things go really badly wrong Ubuntu offers a really neat trick that not 
many people know about.  You can re-install it without formatting or 
over-writing data.  You have to re-install the extra programs again (or remove 
ones you uninstalled last time)

On about the 3rd screen of the 11.10 installer (and most releases before that 
too) it offers choices such as 
"Erase disk and install Ubuntu" (avoid this one!!) or
"Something else" (this is the one)
It scans your drives and shows your partitions in a nice colourful graphical 
display.  If you chose the wrong option either press the back button or the 
link to "Advanced partitioning tool" to get to the same gui.  

You need to set one partition to be / as that is where the OS and programs go.  
It needs to be the same partition type as it was before, probably ext4 or ext3. 
 It is good to have a separate /home partition but that is usually in the same 
partition as the / first time you try Gnu&Linux.  Note that /home is a 
sub-folder inside / and contains user data&settings.  

The important thing is to make sure that the "Format?" column has NO ticks.  If 
a partition gets formatted it loses all the data it contained.  Ubuntu allows 
you to install without having any of these ticked.  I think it's not 
recommended as a fresh install is better but it is possible and seems to work 
well :)  

Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Tue, 18/10/11, planas <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: planas <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 
> 3D)
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 18 October, 2011, 18:47
> On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 08:16 -0700,
> chimak111 wrote: 
> 
> > Hi Tom, thanks for replying. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10
> (Oneiric Ocelot) with
> > Unity 3D. I'd have preferred to have uninstalled it
> via LibreOffice itself
> > but I'll give your suggestion a try and hope I don't
> break anything.
> > 
> > I'm not vastly experienced in Linux. So let's see. I
> had installed the "Copy
> > Visible Cells" extension and that has a way to
> disable/remove it from within
> > LibreOffice's Extension Manager. That, in my opinion,
> should be the way to
> > uninstall extensions.
> > 
> > --
> > View this message in context: 
> > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-3-4-3-on-Ubuntu-11-10-Unity-3D-tp3431366p3431523.html
> > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at
> Nabble.com.
> > 
> 
> 
> Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 both have Synaptic - at the variants
> I have
> looked at. If not installed, it can be downloaded using the
> Software
> Center. Synaptic provides a GUI for detailed package
> management.
> -- 
> Jay Lozier
> [email protected]
> 
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