Re: Open Office and / or Libre Office

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Avi Greenbury <lists@xxxxxx> wrote:

I was under the impression that running both OpenOffice and LibreOffice
on the same system was considered a bit dangerous, since they
conflicted. I'm not aware of having the two of them installed at the
same time being a supported environment on Ubuntu, which would explain
why update-alternatives hasn't been notified of that option.

Why are you running both? Is there some features you need only
available in one, and others only available in the other? As I say,
much of the reccomendation is that you should run one or the other, but
not both.


But since I had some issues with OO so I just followed the post and
installed LO. I thought that OO comes by default (in integration of
installation LTS) but LO I had installed. Ok, if this is the case I would
uninstall one, preferably OO (to be uninstalled) and LO to be retained.


I'm not sure why you ended up being advised to install the package from
Sun/Oracle, though. The Libre Office packaging team for Ubunu maintain
a PPA you can use to install it as you would any other software on
ubuntu:

https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Elibreoffice/+archive/ppa>

Personally, I'd advise uninstalling the Libre Office you just
installed, and the OpenOffice.org that the distro came with, and just
follow the instructions on that PPA page.


Okay, I really didn't know this. In fact, I am coming directly from XP, so
I just (always) follow the posts here. Okay I install from this PPA
(whatever be the method and the link suggests, in that way).


PPAs are basically specific-case repositories, where packages that
aren't suitable for general distribution go - they're outside the
supported core of Ubuntu, but they do conform with all of Ubuntus
standards normally, and they have straightforward installation and
uninstallation. They can be created by anybody, though, so they're not
a lot safer that downloading any other installer from the net, though
that particular one is from the people who package LibreOffice for
Ubuntu, so you've already implicitly entrusted them by installing
OpenOffice.org :)


Oh I see.


Yeah, in that case you would need to go back and repeat those same
steps again when you feel the need to upgrade. Were you to use the PPA,
you'd get upgrades through the normal upgrade process.


Okay but for uninstallation, I must do from Synaptic Package Manager and
then reinstall through PPA. I do that now. And for this first
uninstallation of LO from Synaptic the process I guess is this: just typing
LO in the search field and removing for complete all those which matches
the search query?

Thanks.
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