Am 10.11.2015 um 22:17 schrieb Joel Madero: > Terminal - > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-5-0; > sudo apt-get update; > sudo apt-get install libreoffice > > > Best, > Joel >
I know that the following is not 100% accurate but typing commands into terminals explains nothing. 1) Open a terminal (shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T) 2) Select the first line starting with sudo > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-5-0; 3) Middle-click anywhere in the terminal. If your selection included the new-line character, the command will start running. If not, hit enter to start the command. 4) Enter the admin password to confirm that you are a sys admin. add-apt-repository adds a new subscription to your subscribed software newsletters in the name of the sys admin. This implies that you trust the maintainers of ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-5-0 Without the preceeding sudo command, just running add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-5-0, you would get an error message about missing privileges because you as a naked user are not allowed to write any files outside your home directory or the /tmp directory. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the second and third line. Select and middle-click > sudo apt-get update; to update all your subscribed software newsletters in the name of the sys admin. > sudo apt-get install libreoffice installs libreoffice from the new subscription in the name of the sys admin. Finally, >> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade; Compares the latest newletters with the your currently installed software and updates all software to the announced latest version. If there is something to upgrade, it will prompt you for confirmation. Just hit Enter to confirm. You may notice that the same terminal remembers your given admin password for some minutes so you don't need to re-enter the admin password. Your system maintains a software database about all the files on your system that arrived through debian packages (*.deb). It keeps detailed records about which file belongs to which software package, which software packages are installed, originating from which source. Any graphical software management tools for Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/whatever do exactly the same things in the background. I recommend to install synaptic ( sudo apt-get install synaptic ) for a better overview over the subscribed software, installed, not yet installed, updatable and removable software. There is another way to install software from manually downloaded packages, from CDs etc. This method involves the dpkg command: > sudo dpkg --install *.deb or shorter but less mnemonic: > sudo dpkg -i *.deb installs all *.deb files of the current directory updating your system's software database (which file has been placed where belonging to which package). The difference is that the Debian packages were already stored your system rather than downloaded from an external source. With this method you install unmaintained software at your own risk. The automatic update/upgrade mechanisms do not apply to this software, nevertheless it will be registered at your local software database so it will not be overidden, compromised or harmed in any way by any other software. The typical install directory for this software is /opt. The latest debian packages downloaded from libreoffice.org or Openoffice will be installed in /opt. Finally you can download and install some software freely, bypassing the software database like you use to do on a Windows system. Sometimes they come as executable binaries (analog to Widows setup.exe), sometimes they come as source code which means that you need developer tools to compile the program from the downloaded source code before installing it (or before building your own .deb package and adding it to your sofware database). I use a Java program which is distributed as a zip archive. From time to time I download the latest version and extract it to a freely chosen subdirectory in my /opt directory. There is no need to remove any existing ODF suite before installing another ODF suite. There is just one conflict you need to know. The file /usr/bin/soffice is registered to some already installed office suite. The system will not allow you to install any software claiming the same file /usr/bin/soffice. This is a very important feature of your Debian/Ubuntu system. If your installation fails because of a conflict about /usr/bin/soffice you have 3 choices: 1) Remove the old suite. 2) Move the package with "debian-menu" in the name to another directory. This is the single package which tries to install another /usr/bin/soffice. Without this "debian-menu-x-y.deb" your old suite remains the default program and you can add menues and links to your newly installed secondary suite. 3) Do the same as in 2), then switch to the other directory and install the "debian-menu-x-y.deb" separately like this: > sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite libreoffice-debian-menu-x.y.z.deb This way you tell the system that it is perfectly OK to resolve file conflicts for this particular package by overwriting files and their registration in the software database. In the software database /usr/bin/soffice will belong to the new suite and the new suite will be the default suite with menu entries, file associations etc. > dpkg-query --search /usr/bin/soffice informs you to which package the file belongs currently. Using a terminal, I can install any ODF suite faster than with Setup.exe on Windows, including any /usr/bin/soffice conflict I can choose to resolve one way or the other. sudo apt-get install --> download from repository, add to local software database, upgrade automatically from repository. sudo dpkg --install --> install locally stored packages, add to local software database, no automatic updates. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
