Hi :) Congrats on solving this yourself!! Not an obvious answer! So, nicely done! :)) Also thanks for sending the answer back to us but i think the weird new way of the mailing list meant it accidentally didn't go to the list. I've just sent it back to the list as there didn't seem anything potentially embarrassing or private in the message.
Ida's answer was; sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade So the 1st part refreshes her package manager's "repositories" to get the full list of easily available software. Confusingly apt-get calls that "updating". Then the double "&" means something like "do the next command if the previous one did work". Then apt-get further confuses the issue by calling the "update packages" process an "upgrade". Upgrades are usually a LOT heftier than updates and generally involve downloading a newer version, for example going from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3. LibreOffice doesn't currently do updates. Updates are typically such things as patches that just add a bit to an existing program. That sort of command usually leaves a bit of extra cruft on the system, such as the downloads themselves. Those are no longer needed because apt-get has already used them to install whatever was in the downloads and in that process might also have left bits of the downloads in unzipped/uncompressed form (although i suspect that apt-get is not quite so inelegant). So once every few months i use something like sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoclean (i'm not great at combining different commands into a single command). Alternatively, in Ubuntu, you could use the Janitor to get rid of all sorts of other cruft too as part of a "spring clean". Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Ida Louise Johnson <[email protected]> >To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, 24 May 2013, 20:08 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with Menu Bar in 4.0.3 > > > >Tom, >Thanks for getting back to me on this. While I was waiting for a reply I did >some more searching online and found the following: > >sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade > >That worked and all is well on my end. Not really concerned about the help, >glad to be able to use the menu bar. >Again, thanks > > > > >Some of it's magic! Some of it's tragic! But I've had a good life always! - >Jimmy Buffett > >Ida Louise >Researching: Johnson, Major, Roberts, Higgs, Turnquest, Barry/Berry, Dean > > > >On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi :) >>Don't worry about missing the in-built help. The English version is not >>great. Plus you have to download it and install it separately (which is >>probably the problem you are having) >>http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ >> >>The non-English versions get cleaned up a lot during translation but the >>English one is worth avoiding. Try the proper guides instead >>https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications >> >> >>The menu-bar sounds as though the themes in Ubuntu have stuffed it up. Try >>changing "Appearance" of the whole of Ubuntu and that should clear up. If >>you then change back to the theme you like it might stay fixed in Libreoffice >>too. Alternatively it's probably just that you need to install the "Desktop >>Integration" packages from inside the sub-folder in the installer. Choose the 1 that is not KDE. Even though you are not really using Gnome it still works anyway. >> >>Please let us know how you get on or if you need any of that de-geekifying. >>Good luck and regards from >>Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>________________________________ >>> From: Ida Louise Johnson <[email protected]> >>>To: [email protected] >>>Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2013, 19:24 >>>Subject: [libreoffice-users] Problem with Menu Bar in 4.0.3 >>> >>> >>>I was able to upgrade to 4.0.3 from 3.5 but could not install the help. I >>>get the message unable to locate package. >>> >>>I am able to open my spreadsheet, but can't access the menu bar. When I >>>click on the options of the menu bar, I get the drop down menu but the menu >>>is black and I can't see the options. If there is an arrow on the drop down >>>menu, the option is white and once again I can't see the option. >>> >>>My operating system is Ubuntu 12.04. I would love to be able to sort my >>>spreadsheet, but at this time it's impossible without access to the menu >>>bar. >>> >>> >>>Some of it's magic! Some of it's tragic! But I've had a good life always! - >>>Jimmy Buffett >>> >>>*Ida Louise* >>> >>>Researching: Johnson, Major, Roberts, Higgs, Turnquest, Barry/Berry, Dean >>> >>>-- >>>To unsubscribe 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 >>> >>> >>> > > > -- To unsubscribe 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
