Libre Office comes pre-installed on Mint. Software manger says not installed.

2016-04-21 Thread Keith Smith
Hi, I'm running Mint 17 KDE and want to use Libre Office Base to create some entity relationship diagrams. Mint came with Libre Office pre installed, however there is not Base. I saw a suggestion to use the software manager to do the install. I opened it and searched for Libre Office. I

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-21 Thread Keith Smith
It is OEM. What is the solution for getting an image that I can run in VirtualBox? On 2016-04-20 07:29, Stephen Partington wrote: depends on the version/edition of windows. Most OEM copies are not sold with licencing to be run on a VM but some Enterprise editions do allow for such things. On

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-21 Thread Stephen Partington
you can try it and see. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Keith Smith wrote: > It is OEM. What is the solution for getting an image that I can run in > VirtualBox? > > On 2016-04-20 07:29, Stephen Partington wrote: > >> depends on the version/edition of windows. Most OEM copies are not >> sold

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-21 Thread Michael Butash
Far as I know, M$ OEM's are not transferable in any way, even to VM. Yet another kick in the shorts, you get the joy of paying the microsoft tax twice, and in theory paying far more than oem license costs. Having purchased time and time again laptop hardware with pre-paid windoze licenses tha

Re: Libre Office comes pre-installed on Mint. Software manger says not installed.

2016-04-21 Thread Bob Elzer
Maybe because the package manager didn't install it, it thinks it's not installed. Have you checked other pre installed software for the same behaviour ? On Apr 21, 2016 5:19 PM, "Keith Smith" wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm running Mint 17 KDE and want to use Libre Office Base to create some > entity

Re: Libre Office comes pre-installed on Mint. Software manger says not installed.

2016-04-21 Thread Brien Dieterle
My guess is you are looking at the meta package that installs everything for libreoffice. Go ahead and select it and it should install base too. On Apr 21, 2016 5:19 PM, "Keith Smith" wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm running Mint 17 KDE and want to use Libre Office Base to create some > entity relations