Hi :) I think removing stuff by using the command-line takes away the same dependencies that any of the package managers would. They all use the same command-line tools after all. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012, 13:34 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: removing AbiWord from Ubuntu 12.04 kills >LO desktop-menus > >On 10/10/2012 07:02 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: >> Am 10.10.2012 17:21, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: >>> 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". >>> >> Running the same Ubuntu/Unity on a 64-bit ThinkPad I just tried >> >> $ sudo apt-get remove abiword >> >> which did not affect any of my other office suites (currently AOO and >> LibO from ppa). >> >> $ sudo apt-get remove abiword >> >> reinstalls the same abiword as before without affecting anything. I can >> double-click text documents, I can choose any application from the >> context menu of an .odt file. >> >> The only thing that drives me nuts is that Ubuntu refuses to open any >> ODF document with the graphical zip tool ("unsupported archive") unless >> I change the file name suffix to .zip. This is most idiotic Windows style. >> >I think it may have been partly the way my system is set up. > >I have KDE [full package] installed as well as 12.04's default packages and >MATE desktop environment's packages. It may be that KDE part of the system >say that LO 3.5.4 was removed so it added AdiWord when I did the process using >Synaptic Package Manager. I keep forgetting about the "apt-get remove" >command. I do not use the Terminal much, even after using Ubuntu 9.10 for a >few months till 10.04 came out, then 10.04 till Monday. > >I do not use the LO ppa, but install LO from the Debian download offered by >the LO download site. > >10.04 had no problems with opening the ".oxt" extension files in the archive >managers. For some reason that was the default and not opening it up in LO. >I have not tried to edit my dictionaries with 12.04, yet, but will be working >on adding more words later as I have time to build the python scripts to do >some data-mining of documents to find any missing words and checking if their >spellings are correct. I have been wanting to do this for months, but not had >the time to do the work correctly. > > > >-- 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 > > > > -- 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
