Hi :) I have often heard grumbles about the insanity of Ubuntu's package maintainers but they have never got close to troubling me before. Still haven't really but i hope it doesn't create problems for other people.
I did a clean fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a few different machines and found LO was the default odf reader/writer. The default desktop environment only has about 6 or 8 things on it's equivalent of the "taskbar" and about 4 of them are LibreOffice things. Reaching anything else is a little trickier as menus seem to be old fashioned nowadays. I've not tried an upgrade from 10.04 LTS or at least not noticed the results being problematic Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmas...@krackedpress.com> >To: LibreO - Users Global <users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2012, 16:21 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] removing AbiWord from Ubuntu 12.04 kills LO >desktop-menus > > >I noticed that AbiWord was the default ODF file reader when I right-click on a >document created with LO. I just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04.1 64-bit from 10.04. > >When I use the package manager to remove AbiWord, it removed things like the >desktop menu listing for LO in Office and some other LO packages. When I did >a reinstall, the desktop menu creation failed due to a LO-core issue. So I >needed to remove all of the LO package files and do a "fresh install". > >Why AbiWord removal removes LO packages, I do not know. > >Why did re-installing LO over the working 3.5.6 to replace the "removed" or >"broken" packages, cause the desktop menu error, I do not know. > >Why it took a removal of LO from the system and a "fresh" install to get it >working again, I do not know. > >But for anyone using Ubuntu 12.04, be sure to remove AdiWord before you >install LO on your system. 12.10 comes out in about a week, so this might be >an issue there as well, if 12.10 installs AdiWord when you want LO's newest. > >By-the-way Ubuntu 12.04.1 installs LO 3.5.4 by default, so removing that >version to use 3.5.6, "forces" Ubuntu to install AbiWord during the removal of >3.5.4, so you will have some wordprocessor. > > > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >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 > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
