Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-01-19 7:14 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: > I seriously hook the n00bs up with Debian/XFCE edition, all the time, > and they get off and running with no problem, and stay without problems. > (although that KDE bloat probably looks even more like their favorite > bloated proprietary monster, the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-20 Thread Tom Davies
s about it. So, i will d/l again in a couple of days i guess > :) > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > From: Arda Tunccekic > To: users@libreoffice.org > Sent: Thu, 20 January, 2011 1:18:06 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-user

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-20 Thread Arda Tunccekic
of days i guess :) Regards from Tom :) From: Arda Tunccekic To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 20 January, 2011 1:18:06 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu Yes, this is a great idea to make it accessible from the S

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-20 Thread Tom Davies
in a couple of days i guess :) Regards from Tom :) From: Arda Tunccekic To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 20 January, 2011 1:18:06 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu Yes, this is a great idea to make it acces

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:18:05PM -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:51:05PM -0500, wlb wrote: > >> Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do all > >> the technical stuff? > > > > Technical

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 January 2011 02:07:19 pm Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Greg Madden > wrote: > > > On Tuesday 18 January 2011 10:44:21 pm Mark wrote: > > > snip > > > > > >> On that terminal, execute the following line

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 19 January 2011 02:07:19 pm Mark wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 January 2011 10:44:21 pm Mark wrote: > > snip > > > >> On that terminal, execute the following lines: > >> > >> cd Downloads > >> tar xzf LibO_3.3.0rc3_Linux_x86-64_insta

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
On 01/19/2011 03:51 PM, wlb wrote: Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do all the technical stuff? It was announced somewhere that LO will be on Ubuntu's repository, so it will be easy to install it. I think they are waiting for it to be out of the RC mode. T

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Arda Tunccekic
Yes, this is a great idea to make it accessible from the Software Manager at least, if LO will not be installed by default in the next release of Ubuntu. In Turkey, we have a national distro named as pardus. The pardus development team switched to LO in a very short time after LO's initial an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:48 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, baldwin linguas > wrote: > > > I think that was Ubuntu's life purpose, or something... > > To tack on bloat and eye-candy so the new kids could get their > > feet wet. > > Ubuntu: The Kiddy Pool of the Great Gnu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: > > You really, really make a great point. > And, in fact, that's why I don't use all the gui stuff, dumped > KDE and gnome and other eye-candy bloat years ago, and learned to use the > CLI. > (let's just call it, "for efficiency's sake") > B

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Arda Tunccekic wrote: > > My guess is %90 won't bother installing LO, if not installed by default. Or at least installable all pointy-clicky like in Synaptic or something of that sort. I'm sure, since OOo will soon be going the way of Wordperfect, that LO will

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez > On 11-01-19 02:19 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: > > She could probably add the repo to synaptic and install > > by simply copy/pasting the repo url appropriately into > > the synaptic repo tool, then searching, clicking, installing, > > too, since we're in pointy clicky

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Arda Tunccekic wrote: > > My guess is %90 won't bother installing LO, if not installed by default. > Likely so, but until LO is officially released, 90% won't want it, either. Beta tests are for avid fans and serious users, not the general public. Judging by the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Arda Tunccekic
My guess is %90 won't bother installing LO, if not installed by default. On 20.01.2011 01:18, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:51:05PM -0500, wlb wrote: Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:51:05PM -0500, wlb wrote: >> Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do all >> the technical stuff? > > Technical stuff..like turning on your computer, typing a command, > and *gas

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread MR ZenWiz
2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez : > > I would welcome detailed, tested steps to do the same in a GUI with less > than the 4 steps I enumerated. :) Using a PPA is already a stretch of > using "Linux for human beings", so is going to LibreOffice so early. > It _is_ in beta test - it's not ready for prime

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-19 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 January 2011 10:44:21 pm Mark wrote: > snip >> On that terminal, execute the following lines: >> >> cd Downloads >> tar xzf LibO_3.3.0rc3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz > > The 'tar' man page says to use  a '-' for the m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:51:05PM -0500, wlb wrote: > Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do all > the technical stuff? Technical stuff..like turning on your computer, typing a command, and *gasp* learning something new? -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 "If

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread wlb
Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do all the technical stuff? 2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez > On 11-01-19 02:19 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: > > She could probably add the repo to synaptic and install > > by simply copy/pasting the repo url appropriately into > >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 11-01-19 02:19 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: > She could probably add the repo to synaptic and install > by simply copy/pasting the repo url appropriately into > the synaptic repo tool, then searching, clicking, installing, > too, since we're in pointy clicky land here. > Not that learning to manag

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 10:44:21 pm Mark wrote: snip > On that terminal, execute the following lines: > > cd Downloads > tar xzf LibO_3.3.0rc3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz The 'tar' man page says to use a '-' for the main operation mode, and options, ' -xzf', have not tried it wi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread baldwin linguas
She could probably add the repo to synaptic and install by simply copy/pasting the repo url appropriately into the synaptic repo tool, then searching, clicking, installing, too, since we're in pointy clicky land here. Not that learning to manage in the CLI is ever a bad idea, and, in truth, it real

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > http://www.asterix.com/ > http://www.asterix.com/index.html.fr?rub=francais > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix > Fascinating, thank you, but irrelevant - asterix != asterisk. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 11-01-19 02:47 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote: > 2011/1/18 Fabián Rodríguez : > :[..] >> 3) Type the following command to install Libre Office: >> **sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libreoffice >> libre-office-gnome * >> [...] > What's with the asterisks? > Apparently Thunderbird decided to form

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Tom, 2011/1/19 Tom Davies > http://www.asterix.com/ > http://www.asterix.com/index.html.fr?rub=francais > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix > > I'm a bit surprised about your links. I know Asterix and I love it. But MrZenWiz was asking about *asterisks*. "Asterisk" is the name for this '*

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-19 Thread Tom Davies
http://www.asterix.com/ http://www.asterix.com/index.html.fr?rub=francais http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix From: MR ZenWiz To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 19 January, 2011 7:47:35 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
2011/1/18 Fabián Rodríguez : : > 1) Open a terminal window under Applications > Accessories > Terminal > 2) Type the following command to add the Ubuntu LibreOffice repository > (remember to type ENTER at the end): > *sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa > (you will need to enter your user p

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:05 PM, wlb wrote: > Hi mrzenwiz, > > Thank you for responding, but I am lost after installing x64 for 64 bit.  I > do not understand: > Sorry - I did shortcut that a bit. You can take tony's explanation, except you also need to do the last steps here: Let's say you down

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:07 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:24 PM, wlb wrote: >> Hi Baldwin linguas, >> >> I do have a 64 bit system.  The technician who built my computer and >> introduced me to Linux made sure I knew that.  Thank you for your patience, >> understanding

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-18 Thread Stefano Fraccaro
I have used PPA packages but LibreOffice Base has some issue (missing or blank) with toolbars... I don't know if other software works fine. Deb files from documentfoundation.com works correctly... Il 19/01/2011 8.15, Fabián Rodríguez ha scritto: On 11-01-18 10:20 PM, webmas...@krackedpress.co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-18 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 11-01-18 10:20 PM, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: > On 01/18/2011 09:33 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:15 PM, wlb wrote: >> [] >> You have to download the .deb gzipped-tar file, uncompress it and then [...] One notable downside of installing .debs (other than the long

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread baldwin linguas
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:24 PM, wlb wrote: > Hi Baldwin linguas, > > I do have a 64 bit system.  The technician who built my computer and > introduced me to Linux made sure I knew that.  Thank you for your patience, > understanding and taking the time to type this out step by step.  I will try >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread wlb
Hi Baldwin linguas, I do have a 64 bit system. The technician who built my computer and introduced me to Linux made sure I knew that. Thank you for your patience, understanding and taking the time to type this out step by step. I will try it and see what happens. Thank you, Wanda On Tue, J

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread baldwin linguas
See my message. I explain in "point-n-click-ese". :) tony On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:10 PM, wlb wrote: > Hello webmaster, > > Thank you for responding, but unfortunately, I am not yet computer literate > enough to understand all the technical terminology.  I love Linux and have > been using it f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread baldwin linguas
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:33 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:15 PM, wlb wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have been trying to install the Libre Office onto my computer.  I am using >> Ubuntu Linux, 10.10. ...CLIPPAGE... >>  Everyone on the Linux forum >> speaks so very highly of it. >> >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread wlb
Hello webmaster, Thank you for responding, but unfortunately, I am not yet computer literate enough to understand all the technical terminology. I love Linux and have been using it for over 2 years, and would not go back to Windows, but I still have to click here and there to get things done. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread wlb
Hi mrzenwiz, Thank you for responding, but I am lost after installing x64 for 64 bit. I do not understand: tar xzf , cd into the newly created LibO_* directory, then cd into the DEBS directory, run 'sudo dpkg -i *.deb", then cd into the desktop-integration directory and run the same dpkg command

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
On 01/18/2011 09:33 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:15 PM, wlb wrote: Hello, I have been trying to install the Libre Office onto my computer. I am using Ubuntu Linux, 10.10. I have tried several times to down load it, even one that took hours. I finally stopped it. I tried t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread MR ZenWiz
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:15 PM, wlb wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to install the Libre Office onto my computer.  I am using > Ubuntu Linux, 10.10.  I have tried several times to down load it, even one > that took hours.  I finally stopped it.  I tried to follow the instructions, > but I

[libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

2011-01-18 Thread wlb
Hello, I have been trying to install the Libre Office onto my computer. I am using Ubuntu Linux, 10.10. I have tried several times to down load it, even one that took hours. I finally stopped it. I tried to follow the instructions, but I am not technologically literate and I tried to follow as