Hi :) With most Gnu&Linux's LibreOffice is installed by default so you don't need to install anything unless you really want to make life tricky and go for the cutting-edge. Some have OpenOffice instead but that is still fairly similar and can edit pretty much all the same file formats. (LO added a few extra ones recently). A few have Gnome Office or KOffice/Caligra but again they use the same formats.
So, this thread is really only about getting the cutting-edge 4.0.0 Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Monday, 11 February 2013, 18:48 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb > >Le 2013-02-11 13:05, Dan Lewis a écrit : > >> There are a variety of ways to install LO for Debian OS's. Some are >> harder than others, and some are easier. >> What no one has mentioned is the use of script files. They will do much >> of the work for you. Planning how to install the Deb files is important. >> If you have LO from your OS, you need to use Synaptic (Step#1 mentioned >> above.) But this is the only time you need to do this. dpkg (installs >> the Deb files) writes the new files over the existing files. There is no >> need to remove them. >> Extract the installation folder and always place it in the same >> location. (This is important for the contents of the script file.) >> >> Example of the script file: >> #!/bin/sh >> cd /home/dan/Downloads/LO/LibO_3.6.5.2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US/DEBS/ >> sudo dpkg -i *.deb >> cd desktop-integration >> sudo dpkg -i *.deb >> This looks like a lot of typing, but it is not really. Besides much of >> it is used over and over again. The third line is the longest. "cd >> /home/dan/Downloads/LO/" is the location for the installation folder >> that you extracted. "LibO_3.6.5.2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US" is the >> name of that folder. >> I do not like to type long names like the name of the installation >> folder, so I look for a short cut. I use the file browser (Nautilus) to >> go to this folder's location, I can right click on the folder and select >> Properties. There at the top is the folder's name highlighted. Ctrl+C >> copies the name, and I paste it into the third line. I also erase the >> name of the previous folder. Another method: erase the number of the >> previous LO version and type in the new number. In this case, replace >> 3.6.5.2 with 4.0.0.3. >> What this does: installs the Deb files and desktop integration items. >> The script file needs to be executable when it was first created. To do >> this right click the script file, select Properties -> Permissions. >> Click the box labelled "Allow executing the file as a program." >> The location of the script file might be important also. >> So actual steps to install 4.0.0.3: >> 1) Download the file to /home/dan/Downloads/LO/. >> 2) Extract the downloaded file to the same location. >> 3) Update the third line of the script file using either method using >> gedit. >> 4) In the file browser, double click the script file. >> 5) Click the button "Run in Terminal". >> 6) Type your password. >> 7) Close the terminal. >> The first two steps involve only clicks. Step 3 can involve only using >> the mouse, or typing 4 digits and 3 periods. Only step 6 involves typing >> with the rest done by mouse clicks. >> >> --Dan >> > >Yes, but a newcomer to Linux who wished to install LibreOffice on her/his >distro would not know this, and hopefully, would just do what most people >would do and unpack the compressed files and double-click the .deb's or .rpm's >... or select all of them - right-click and choose to open with the file >manager. > >I don't believe we are doing our users any service by suggesting all of these >convoluted ways of installing. Let's promote the easy and straight forward. it >really simple. > >Cheers, > >Marc > > >-- Marc Paré >m...@marcpare.com >http://www.parEntreprise.com >parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) >parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org > > >-- 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
