Welcome to AOO. What Twitter posting? On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Kenneth Mcfarland < kennethpaulmcfarl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello OpenOffice Team > > Nice work! I kicked LibreOffice to the curb today after seeing the twitter > posting. It's great to be back and use Apache being a contributor to other > projects. > > Anyways, there is one small thing that could make peoples lives easier. > Here is my use case: > > I run Ubuntu 16.04 which comes with Libre, a lot of other people who are > thrifty or love linux could be in my situation. The install notes that the > path /usr/bin/soffice needs to be removed but this is *not* enough. Even > after removing it, there will be errors during installation the generic > "error /usr/bin/soffice libreoffice blah blah error". > > One needs to sudo apt-get -f remove libreoffice-common or the install will > fail. I know, I just finished. Here is the ubuntu board I found during my > search. First reply. > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/382041/dpkg-error- > processing-openoffice4-0-debian-menus-4-0-9714-all-deb > > It would simply be nice if the en_US installation directory contained a > file called INSTALL that concisely pointed this out as I did read the > readmes both of them. The HTML version does a lot better job pointing this > out, but is still insufficient as described above. > > I would be happy to do the work of correcting this if nobody else can. > > Sincerely, > Kenneth McFarland >
