Hi :) No need to "beat yourself up over it". Your initial post made enough sense that people were able to run with it. Effectively it was little more than a typo and under a stress that none of us enjoy but a few have had to endure = so i think we can appreciate it being such a tiny and understandable inaccuracy.
So, both your posts are very much appreciated - as always. Many regards from Tom :) On 11 October 2015 at 16:48, Andreas Säger <[email protected]> wrote: > Andreas Säger wrote > > If you don't want any desktop integration because you want to use the new > > suite as a secondary suite, rename/remove the desktop-ingegration.deb > file > > _before_ running dpkg and everything *should* be fine IMHO. > > Oh, that was sloppy posting because renaming won't prevent that file from > being installed together with the other *.deb files (unless you renamed the > deb extension). This _may_ fail if there is some other suite installed. > > 1) Do nothing and run sudo dpkg -i *.deb if there is no other suite owning > /usr/bin/soffice > > 2) Move the desktop-integration.deb to the trash bin if you don't want the > desktop integration for this office suite. > > 3) If you want desktop integration for the newly installed suite AND there > is an /usr/bin/soffice file from another suite, then you should indeed make > a subdirectory and move that particular deb file before running sudo dpkg > -i > *.deb in the DEBS directory without additional switch. This should run > without error. And then run sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite *.deb in that > subdirectory in order to make this office suite the primary one overwriting > any /usr/bin/soffice. The overwrite switch applies only to this particular > package with this particular problem when there is another suite owning > /usr/bin/soffice. > > The desktop-integration*.deb should reside in a separate subdirectory but > the LO guys always know better. Simply applying the overwrite switch to all > the *.deb packages may resolve unforeseen dependencies by overwriting > essential files of alternative office suites which would damage these > installations. > > Thank you for your attention. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Installing-Libreoffice-in-Ubuntu-tp4162664p4162910.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > 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
