Then my question is now "why in the world are you using Linux?" You're
describing things that aren't an issue at all if you know some basics about
Linux, and if you use a package manager, all of this virtually disappears.
Perhaps you would be happier with an OS that barely changes for years at a time
such as Win2k?
I'm a full-time Linux user that runs a bleeding-edge Gentoo system on the
unstable branch (meaning, I use the latest of everything on my system whether or
not the Gentoo gods have deemed the software stable) and this isn't the
experience I have with it at all. Updating openoffice is as easy as typing
"emerge openoffice (or openoffice-bin if I don't want to wait for a compile)"
when a new version is available, and my package manager handles the rest -
config files intact. I really suggest using a different operating system or
learning some Linux basics and using a package manager. There's just no good
reason to be using 1.1.3, really.
Quoting Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 04:41:39AM -0400, Matthew Harrison wrote:
> > Why in the world are you using 1.1.3 when 2.2.1 is current? 1.1.3 is
> > at least 3 years old. Is Debian providing you with this? I suggest
> > downloading 2.2 and enjoying a working OOo install on Linux.
>
> I installed Debian Sarge on my PC about that time. I've only upgraded
> one program since then, the one I hack myself.
>
> Upgrading software really isn't fun. Downloading it, unpacking it,
> ./configure; make; make install, yes, that can take less than an hour.
> Or sometimes it hits incompatibility bugs ("can't find iplv6.h"). Then
> the fun really starts.
>
> Typically, the new version doesn't find your old config file; it has
> "enhanced" the search path, and finds instead the empty file it has
> itself placed high up in this path; yes, Debian has done this to me. Or
> it has obliterated it with a shiny new version (OK, this is rare). Or it
> can't understand it any more, because it now expects it to be in "XML"
> (yuck!).
>
> It can't find your existing files (because you haven't configured your
> $HOME into it yet). It can't understand your style settings (because the
> format has changed). It can't process a file.rtf generated by MS Word
> because it no longers tolerates certain buggy constructions. It
> automatically tries to convert all your files to ODF unless you do
> something to stop it. (Note: I'm not saying this is the case).
>
> It assumes you're running on a 800 x 600 screen (Debian Sarge actually
> set up my Window manager like this). Or, just as bad, a 3840 x 2400 one.
>
> Now there's nothing terribly difficult about fixing all these hassles.
> It's just that each one takes between half an hour and two hours,
> sometimes longer, to diagnose and fix. By the time you've sorted out the
> 4 to 8 gotchas which come with the typical major upgrade, that's one to
> two days of wretchedness. Multiply that by the number of packages you
> use, and that's a lot of unhappy time.
>
> So I tend not to upgrade software as such. Unless something is really
> badly broken, I don't try to fix it. Being without the help file counts
> as broken here. (BTW, would somebody, please, PRETTY PLEASE, tell me the
> name of the file I need?) Things get upgraded when I install a new
> version of GNU/Linux.
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Ittersbach, Germany).
>
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