On 01/05/11 16:48, RA Brown wrote: > On Wed Jan 05 2011 13:12:14 GMT-0800 (PST) webmas...@krackedpress.com > wrote: > >> I needed to know some info about updating/upgrading OOo in Ubuntu, since >> I no longer use the repository version and its upgrading system. >> >> Can I get away with just running the .deb files and not worry about >> removing >> and then reinstalling the desktop-integration [i.e. menus]? I had to do >> a complete >> uninstall, including the menus, so I did not get any errors when I >> installed the >> Oracle version of OOo instead of the Go-oo version in the repository. >> >> So can I just install the deb files and skip the desktop-integration? >> > > To keep from having problems with the desktop-integration you will > have to only install one version of OOo. I have Go-oo 3.2 from the > Ubuntu repository and when I installed any of the OOo RCs I have the > same problem. If your going to run the straight OOo then there should > be no problem. I always remove the installed RC using the Package > Manager before installing the next one. Then use the dpkg -i command > to install the next. > > HTH > > Andy I know that when I wanted to go from the Go-oo to the OOo version, I had to remove the original package completely as well as the menus. It seemed that there was something wrong if I did not remove the original package first and completely. I even had to remove the .openoffice.org folder as well, since something caused the default document to crash and not repair properly.
So that was when I installed - finally - this version of OOo. I did not know if I would have any problems when the next version came out, such as the menus and such. I still have not reinstalled all of the extensions I use to use with the old Go-oo version that I started using since I came to Ubuntu back in Feb '10 on this machine. I may have to do a complete reinstall of Ubuntu to solve a problem with one of my software that seemed to have lost a dependency that was not fixed by all the other means in the terminal's options that I found. So this might have been a mute point. To be fair, I also have LibreOffice 3.3.0.1 RC something installed as well, since I wanted to see what it was all about. I may remove it after OOo 3.3.0.x comes out of RC. Or I may just have it there as a spare ODF suite if there is trouble with my copy of OOo, so I can finish my work and then fix the problem. I had to install KOffice the last time that happened and I use Ubuntu's version of GNOME instead of KDE, so this time I will have something a little closer to OOo whenever there is another problem that requires a reinstall and I am in the middle of a big project and close to my deadline. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
