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On 27/11/11 08:19, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > So wifey has been getting along with Linux for some months now and > in-genral most things are fine... owever she's recently been writing a > report for a client and it's 50 pages with some images, tables, diagrams > and so on - and OOo is crashing. She tells me it's worse then any > version of Office ever was. > > So this is quite a blow. > > So what next? Get the latest OOo and manually install it (She's running > Debian Stable) or manually install LibreOffice? > > Anyone moved to LO from OOo? How different are the menus, controls, etc? > (because that's the biggest concern my wife seems to have!) You can install libreoffice from squeeze-backports, details below but basically it is adding a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then apt-get update && apt-get install -t squeeze-backports libreoffice Regards, Mike. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Debian moves to LibreOffice > Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:35:10 +0000 (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:27:31 +0200 > From: Meike Reichle <meike@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: press@xxxxxxxxxx > To: debian-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ > Debian moves to LibreOffice press@xxxxxxxxxx > June 23rd, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110623 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Debian moves to LibreOffice > > The Debian project is proud to announce that the transition from > OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice has now been completed. LibreOffice has > already been available for "testing" and "unstable" since March and has > now been backported to Debian 6.0 "Squeeze", too. > > Rene Engelhard, Debian's LibreOffice maintainer and member of > LibreOffice's Engineering Steering Committee, says: "I am sure Debian and > its users will benefit greatly from this transition; I expect not only an > improved collaboration but also quicker development cycles." > > > Installation of LibreOffice > > Interested users of the current stable release Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" may > add the following line in their /etc/apt/sources.list file: > > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main > > After adding this, perform an update and install the package libreoffice > from the squeeze-backports suite using the package management software of > your choice (e.g. apt-get update ; apt-get install -t squeeze-backports > libreoffice). Previously installed OpenOffice.org packages should be > uninstalled automatically. Depending on the used desktop environment, you > might also have to install the libeoffice-gtk, libreoffice-gnome or > libreoffice-kde packages. > > > More information on backports can be found on the backports.debian.org > webpage at http://backports-master.debian.org/. > > > About LibreOffice > ----------------- > > LibreOffice is a free software office suite developed by The Document > Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. > > > About Debian > ------------ > > The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free > community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the > largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of > volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain > Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range > of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system". > > > Contact Information > ------------------- > > For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at > http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press@xxxxxxxxxx>. >
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