On 08/09/2013 03:22 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi all, > > I make my first steps in using Linux and have got a OpenSuse 12.3 on my > old Notebook. Now I try to install LO4.1. I have download the archive, > unpacked it and followed the instructions in its readme. Hello Regina, I appreciate your efforts to shift to Free Software. However in the Linux world unlike in Windows most users use Repositories to install, manage and update applications. There are many advantages of using repos: 1- The repo itself tracks latest version of applications and so you can always be updated without the need to download and update your applications one by one. 2- All packages in a repo are consistent with each other. As you may know many packages depend on others (i.e. libraries); When you manually install a software which is not in repo, it may need some libraries which are not present and so the software may not work properly or it leads to upgrade of those libraries which may break some other applications (in case the library upgrade is not backward compatible e.g. gnome 3.8). 3- You can download and install a .rpm (for fedora and suse) or .deb (for ubuntu and debian) file of a software. In this case all dependencies will be checked and only if no incompatibility exists it allows installation. This method is safer but it lacks automatic upgrade feature. 4- Mostly professional users and usually for specific purposes manually download archive (.tar.gz) of a software from its website and then follow the inner instructions to install it. There is a convention to install manually installed software to /opt (abbreviation for optional) to differentiate them from software installed from repos. Not only you can not automatically update software installed with this method, but also the software may not work properly due to inconsistencies. 5- Windows applications usually solve the inconsistency problem by installing most of their needed libraries again. This solution usually ends to applications which occupy huge size on the disk, which is mostly redundant.
Therefore I recommend you to install your desired application (e.g. libreoffice) from OpenSuse repository directly. It seems that the latest version of LO in OpenSuse 12.3 official repo is 3.6.3. So if you want to install the latest version of LO, you can use 3rd party repos specific to OpenSuse. I could find two 3rd party repos for LO for OpenSuse 12.3: 1. Repo named LO Stable with version 4.0.3 with URL http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/openSUSE_12.3/ 2. Repo named LO Unstable with version 4.1.0 with URL http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Unstable/openSUSE_12.3/ These repos must update automatically when newer version of LO come out and so you can update your installed LO in the future only with some clicks, no more efforts. For instructions on how to add a repository see: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Add_package_repositories For the list of all official, semi-official and 3rd party repos see: http://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories#LibreOffice_STABLE > I can get the single modules from the application launcher, but there remain two > problems. > (1) > The instruction mention a directory "desktop-integration" to be in the > folder RPMS, but there is no such directory. > (2) > I want to get an icon on the desktop, which launches the start center, > not a specific module. How do I get that? > > Kind regards > Regina > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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