2018-02-24 12:23 GMT+01:00 Robert Großkopf <[email protected]>:
> Hi Henri, > > > > Surprised to hear that the Ubuntu respositories don't provide a complete > LO > > package - I install via the PPA on my Linux Mint machine, which is an > > Ubuntu fork, and get everything, including Math and Base. What gives ?... > > Every Linux-distribution does allow to install only parts of LO. There > are different packages for Writer, Clac, Base ... If you choose only the > Writer-packages only the packages of LO will be installed, which are > necessary for Writer. By default in most systems the whole LO-packages > will be installed. > > But: It doesn't make any difference for an old system. Writer will run > the same speed - if Base, Calc, Draw and whatever will be installed or > not. So if you haven't enough free disk space it will be a good idea to > choose only the parts of LO you need. > > Regards > > Robert > -- > Homepage: http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de > LibreOffice Community: http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de/map_3 Thanks, Robert, for your reply ! I'm aware that one can choose not to install certain LO packages. What surprised me in Tim's post was rather that - as I interpreted him - the packages for Math and Base were not automatically downloaded and installed, without any intervention on his part. But perhaps I misunderstood.... Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
