12.04 had 3.5.4 as the default system. But when I removed it to have
3.5.6 installed, that is when it installed AdiWord and made it the
default for a word processing package.
Also, I use MATE [GNOME 2.x fork-like package] for the desktop
environment so I do not need to deal with the Unity desktop left side of
the screen taskbar. I prefer the taskbar/panel on the bottom and a
second panel on the top of the desktop screen.
With a clean install of 10.04 and the direct upgrading to 12.04, there
is not issues with the upgrading to Ubuntu's default system. BUT, I do
not like the defaults for most of the system, like Unity. I used 10.04
GNOME and KDE packages on the system, choosing which package works the
best for my needs. Now I deal with having 12.04 with Unity, KDE, and
MATE together using MATE as the default desktop environment.
On 10/10/2012 12:54 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
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 :)
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From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <[email protected]>
To: LibreO - Users Global <[email protected]>
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.
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