FWIW, I wrote this script a couple of years ago to do the installations for me.
#!/bin/bash # A script to install or update libreoffice releases properly if [[ "$1" == "-x" ]]; then shift set -x fi me=`basename $0` Usage() { echo "Usage: $me [-x][-h|--help] <gzipped-tarball> [<gzipped-tarball>...]" exit 0 } if [[ -z "$1" || "$1" == "-h" || "$1" == "--help" ]]; then Usage; fi # Change these to install on rpm base systems tgt=DEBS cmd="dpkg -i" sfx=deb for tb in $*; do if [[ ! -f $tb ]]; then if [[ -f "$tb.tgz" ]]; then tb="$tb.tgz" elif [[ -f "$tb.tar.gz" ]]; then tb="$tb.tar.gz" else echo "Can't find $tb or $tb.tgz or $tb.tar.gz - skipping..." read ln continue fi fi # find out what the name of the uncompressed subdirectory will be dst=`tar tzf $tb 2> /dev/null | head -1 | awk -F/ '{print $1}'` tar xzf $tb if [[ ! -d $dst/$tgt ]]; then echo "Can't find $me directory $dst/$tgt - skipping..." read ln continue fi # install or update, depending on how I was called cd $dst/$tgt case $me in loinst) sudo $cmd *.$sfx if [[ -d desktop-integration ]]; then cd desktop-integration sudo $cmd *.$sfx cd .. fi cd ../.. ;; loupdate) cd .. sudo ./update cd .. ;; esac # delete the installation directory /bin/rm -rf $dst done echo "" MR On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 7:47 PM, John R. Sowden <jsow...@americansentry.net> wrote: > I have been dealing with this issue for years, going back to the Open Office > days. > > How do you install Libreoffice under Ubuntu? > > Where are the step by step, clearly documented instructions? > > When are they not either on the download page in LO or a clear link on the > download page? > > Here's what I find on the net including a google search: > > 1) Use the Software Center in Ubuntu. Never mind that it is not the current > version. Never mind that the version is not posted in the "more Info" > description, along with the date of the version. > > or > > 20 Go to libreoffice.org. Press the big download button. Now what? Start > googling for instructions. > Expect the instructions to not tell you: > an explanation of each command. > where the program will end up on your system. > whether it will automatically get rid of the remnant files and even the > original downloaded files. > how to deal with the help, and why. > > or > > 3) Google like I did last night and find that there are "ppa"s, with a well > written explanation of the "fresh ppa" being better and why. Now try to find > how to install the most current version, whether you have a copy on your > computer or not. > > and > > How to deal with dependencies, not just finding out that you have > "dependency problems" but also that LO will not install due to them. > > It seems that this is a universal Linux problem. If you don't know the > intricacies of Linux, then you shouldn't be using it. So much for attaining > more market share. > > John Sowden > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > 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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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