Yes, I've installed LibreOffice that way many times, but it results in a parallel installation into /opt, rather than an upgrade of the existing version. Also, I am supposing that there is some advantage to whatever they do to tweak it for (k)ubuntu.
David Burleigh ------------ 828-398-1406 On 10/22/2012 07:01 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > It's probably best to download and install the official version from the > official website rather then one tweaked for Ubuntu > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_LibreOffice_on_Linux > > > Ppas are often a little out of date. They tend to depend on only one or 2 > people and those people may have other work commitements or other things > going on in their lives. Often they are very keen and committed to their Ppa > but even so it's probably better to get the upstream one from the LO page. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > > >> ________________________________ >> From: David Burleigh <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, 22 October 2012, 21:43 >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] What happened to the Libreoffice PPA? >> >> The LibreOffice ppa for Linux hasn't been updated since version 3.6.0. >> Has it been discontinued? >> >> -- >> 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
