[rdogs]

I don't know how to install LibreOffice in Ubuntu 10.01. I have received, and tried, several suggestions without success. Please don't suggest using the terminal.
rdogs

[Evildave]

Download the .deb file. Double-click on it.

[Evildave]

Or just wait until next Ubuntu version, when it will replace OpenOffice. Unless you needed the extra language support, or one of the new file formats supported, it's still pretty much identical to OpenOffice.

[rdogs]

Evildave, on 22 March 2011 - 03:03 PM, said:

Or just wait until next Ubuntu version, when it will replace OpenOffice. Unless you needed the extra language support, or one of the new file formats supported, it's still pretty much identical to OpenOffice.

I have not had any success finding deb. I have downloaded at least 8 copies of Libraoffice, and I was unable to find deb. I found DEB folder, again no success.


Life is too short to spend hours and hours that end in frustration.
I'll wait until April 28 for the new Ubuntu.

Thanks for your support.
rdogs

[Evildave]

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

Click on the platform button, I see x86 and x64 deb versions... so why don't you?

[Evildave]

Well, let's see... when I actually start the download, there's only .tar.gz files where it SAYS '.deb'. I guess I'll open with archive manager & see...

Yeah. Looks like the setup will cause you to have to unpack that file (using the archive manager) into your home directory or a temp directory in your home directory, then use the terminal to change directory and run a couple of commands.

Not very automagical, but not very hard, either.

Go to the DEBS sub-folder you got when you unpacked all of that (with the 'cd' command - you can type part of a path and hit 'tab' to complete it.)

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Then go to the desktop-integration folder in there (cd desktop-integration)

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

You'll probably want to go into the software center and uninstall all the bits of OpenOffice.org before doing all of that.

[rdogs]

Evildave, on 22 March 2011 - 06:32 PM, said:

Well, let's see... when I actually start the download, there's only .tar.gz files where it SAYS '.deb'. I guess I'll open with archive manager & see...

Yeah. Looks like the setup will cause you to have to unpack that file (using the archive manager) into your home directory or a temp directory in your home directory, then use the terminal to change directory and run a couple of commands.

Not very automagical, but not very hard, either.

Go to the DEBS sub-folder you got when you unpacked all of that (with the 'cd' command - you can type part of a path and hit 'tab' to complete it.)

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Then go to the desktop-integration folder in there (cd desktop-integration)

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

You'll probably want to go into the software center and uninstall all the bits of OpenOffice.org before doing all of that.

I got the 64bit version for my Ubuntu 64bit. Also, when I failed to install it, I tried the 32bit version to see if that would work. That didn't work. I have a 32bit Ubuntu installation, so I tried the 32bit Libraoffice, again without success.

Yes, I have two hard drives, one with Ubuntu 32bit, and one with Ubuntu 64bit. I built a 64bit pc with hard disk trays, and I have several hard disks with various operating systems. It's easy to use the pc with any operating system I want. I have a desktop Mac Pro. For stability, and general use, Apple can't be beat. They are expensive, but they work every time.

I like many things about Linux, and I used it as my primary os for a time. I kept trying new versions of Ubuntu, and it got better with each new version. Finally, automatically, it would recognize all three of my wireless routers. However, installing new packages drove me back to Windows every time. Windows has many problems, but Linux will never have widespread use, because of the arcane package installation procedure. I can see the appeal for people who like to code, but that's not why I use computers.

I'll wait for April 28.

Thank you very much, for your interest and help.

rdogs

This post has been edited by coastie65: 16 August 2011 - 04:33 AM

[Evildave]

I dunno. You can't call the 'Software Center' arcane. They just happen to have a lot of 'other' ways to install software. You can't blame Ubuntu when the LibreOffice folks can't be bothered to make a 'real' .deb file, any more than you can blame windoze when someone gives you a zip file with random content in it, and a setup.bat.

Of course, any time that I've deviated from the 'Software Center' version, I've run across issues later on. Such as getting the 'latest greatest' virtualbox, and then having subsequent updates complain.

I got LibreOffice to work, first try, but I'm a veteran of 'bad installs'.

So they DO provide an 'easy' method to set up and remove software, but it's apparently a bit harder for developers to use than it should be, and somewhat brittle when incorrectly set up packages from 'outside' their universe are mixed with 'supported' packages.

[HankRearden]

Remove Open Office:

sudo apt-get purge "openoffice*.*"

Add the LibreOffice repository:

gksu add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
gksu apt-get update

Install LibreOffice:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-gnome language-support-en

[Evildave]

Sounds like they finally added the .deb file.

[robinwillson]

The Document Foundation, has already released a beta version of Libre Office that can be installed on Ubuntu.

[aarendavid]

Please note that:

Before installing libreoffice you need to remove open office using the following command using the terminal

sudo apt-get remove --purge openoffice*.*

Note:- Removing openoffice is optional you can run openoffice and libreoffice side by side

First you need to download libreoffice tar.gz file from here http://download.docu...office/testing/

Once you downloaded you can extract this file by right click on it and select extract here now you should be having en-US folder inside this you should be able to see DEBS folder.Installing all these deb files are easy from command line so open the terminal and run the following comamnd

sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/en-US/DEBS/*.deb

Finally you need to install desktop integration deb package using the following command

sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.3-debian-menus_3.3-9526_all.deb