On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:12:15 -0700 (MST) Robert Holtzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> Some time ago I remember seeing a something about the version of OOo > supplied with the then current version of Ubuntu linux had some sort of a > problem. The advice at the time was to wipe it and d/l a fresh copy from > the web site. Does this still hold true with the version (a Ubuntu tweak) > supplied with 7.10? There are no problems with the version of OOo that comes with either 32- or 64-bit Gutsy 7.10. Having said that, there are few updates that have come along, so after installing Gutsy go into System > Update Manager and let it install all the updates. You will encounter several dozen upgrades in all over the current image of Gutsy, but only a handful are OOo upgrades, and they were all security fixes, not bugfixes or new features. I have been using it since installing Gutsy on a new computer and the only problems I have had have been my failure to understand something. There were serious problems with OOo on x86-64 version of Feisty, but they were caused by Feisty, not by OOo. At the time, I downloaded and installed the version from OOo and it did not fix any of the problems. You frequently hear people on this list say that the "Ubuntuized" version is the cause of a problem, but in my experience, installing the official OOo version accomplishes nothing. The problems are caused by things that Ubuntu does, not changes that the Ubuntu team has made to OOo. So just install OOo from Synaptic. It is not an Ubuntu tweak. It is the regular OOo. I doubt you'll have any problems but, if you do, they will be caused by Ubuntu, not because the version is funny. However, having said that, the version that is in the Ubuntu repositories may not be the absolute latest. So if there is some feature that is available only in the very latest version of OOo, that may be a justifiable reason to install the version from OOo. I note that the version I have on my Ubuntu computer is 2.3.0, openoffice.org-core 1:2.3.0 Tue Nov 27. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
