On 04/11/2012 08:30 AM, dcannell wrote: ... > > My other issue is that with the OpenOffice that came native with my > Ubuntu 10.04 I can't download LibreOffice for testing without blowing my > OpenOffice away. That doesn't seem like a very friendly way of doing > business because what if I truly don't like LibreOffice once I get it > loaded? Not saying that I won't but I've been in the computer business > since 1964 and know that not is all as it seems 8-)
That is not an issue at all. Forget all the other "advise" telling you to uninstall OpenOffice before installing LibreOffice (LO). When you install LO, it installs in the /opt directory and doesn't touch your installed OOo application. Download both the tar.tz files for Debian - https://www.libreoffice.org/download/?nodetect: clink on Linux (deb): and your architecture (x86 for 32bit or x86_64 for 64bit). That will link you to (32 bit in this example): https://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=deb-x86 Select your language (English (US)?): That gets you to: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=deb-x86&lang=en-US Click on the 3.4.6 (you can install 3.5 later if you wish and even run 3.4 + 3.5 + OOo 3.2 in parallel at the same time) and download both the Main installer and the Help file. Those will download as: LibO_3.4.6_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz and LibO_3.4.6_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_en-US.tar.gz Open Nautilus and right click on the tar.gz and select 'Extract here' for both files. That will create two directories: LibO_3.4.6rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US and LibO_3.4.6rc2_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_en-US Open a terminal and cd to LibO_3.4.6rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS. Install: /LibO_3.4.6rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb That will install LO into the /opt directory as /opt/libreoffice3.4. Now do the same for the help file: /LibO_3.4.6rc2_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_en-US/DEBS$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb Now create a menu by installing the desktop integration deb: /LibO_3.5.1rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration$ dpkg -i *.deb I don't currently have a 10.04 installed, so if that gives you errors don't try to install the again, and instead create your own menu. On the top panel right-click 'Applications' and select 'Edit Menus'. Go to 'Office' and click on 'New Item'. Fill in as: Name: LibreOffice 3.4 Command: /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/soffice Comment: whatever you'd like To run: Applications|Office|LibreOffice 3.4 Sorry, can't help you with any of the rest. -- 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
