Installing LibO 3.4 RC1 on Ubuntu

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#1

There are 4 files for LibO 3.4 RC1 for Ubuntu. In what order should they
be installed? I know the langpack and helppack go in after the main
program, but what about the LibO-URE file? Before or after the main
file?

Do I need to remove the LibO that is supplied with Ubuntu first?

Apologies if this has been covered here recently and I'm too brain-dead
to find it in the archives.

This info would be good to have on the download page for Linux, for
those of us ignorant of such things.

--Jean

#2

No need to remove the (U)LO version. See this thread:

<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/5271>

and expanded:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/5276>

<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/5320>

And of course the 'how did we find this page':
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/instructions/
<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/linux/>

If you need added help post back.

#3

OK, I guess I'm stupid or I got lost in all those words, but I still
don't see where it says *WHEN* to intall the LibO-URE file: *before* or
*after* the main LibO file.

--Jean

#4

BTW, I don't care about "desktop integration". I don't need it, I don't
use it, I don't want it. So any info about that is just noise to me at
the moment.

--Jean

#5

$ cd /home/<user>/<pathto>/LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

$ cd /home//<user>/<pathto>/LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Done. You'll find LO 3.4.0B5 in /opt/program/soffice

$ /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/soffice

If you want to add a menu:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/5320>

#6

...

BTW, I don't care about "desktop integration". I don't need it, I don't
use it, I don't want it. So any info about that is just noise to me at
the moment.

"noise"? I guess you'd prefer to run everything from the cli:
$ /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/soffice
Have at it. I prefer to have a menu item that I can easily click on to
run the programs that I have installed.

#7

...

Done. You'll find LO 3.4.0B5 in /opt/program/soffice

Correction:
/opt/libreoffice3.4/program/soffice

#8

I used an icon on the desktop, which I create myself. I rarely use menu
items.

--Jean

#9

>
> OK, I guess I'm stupid or I got lost in all those words, but I still
> don't see where it says *WHEN* to intall the LibO-URE file: *before* or
> *after* the main LibO file.

$ cd /home/<user>/<pathto>/LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

$ cd /home//<user>/<pathto>/LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

So where does the LibO-URE file come in? The lines above look identical
to me, other than two // after home in the second line vs one / in the
first line.

--Jean

#10

My mistake (copy & paste):
$ cd /home/<user>/<pathto>/LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS

Somewhere along the line you've followed the instructions to download
the LO tar.gz right?

If 32bit then:
LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
if 64bit then:
LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

Extract whatever version you've downloaded by '$ tar xvzf <LOfile>.gz
That will create a /LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US folder
in your home directory:

/home/<yourusername>//LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US

Within that folder is the subfolder 'DEB' - that's the folder where all
the .deb files are located. Open a terminal:
Applications>Accessories>Terminal - once opened, cd to the
/home/<yourusername>//LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS
folder:

$ cd /home/<yourusername>//LibO_3.4.0beta5_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS

Once there:

$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Note: that will install all the *dict files included (every language
that LO decided to try). If you'd like to cut down on the install, you
can first remove the *dict files that you don't need... like:
libobasis3.4-dict-vi_3.4.0-5_i386.deb
before doing 'sudo dpkg -i *.deb

#11

Right... However even to do that you need to understand where the
*actual* program is.... right?

<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/5320>

Provided you that info. You can eliminate the menu item if you wish, but
the process of creating a desktop launcher is pretty much the same.
Note: you don't just use "an icon on the desktop"; you can create a
program launcher and add an icon if you wish, but LO won't just create
an program launcher with icon all by itself as in Windows.

#12

You're still not answering my initial question, which is: What the heck
do I do, if anything, with this file, which is one of the FOUR files
provided on the download page for pre-release versions of LibO:
LibO-URE_3.4rc1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

All I want to know is whether to install that FIRST, or after the
regular LibO install file (the one you've mentioned here), or do I not
need to install the LibO-URE file at all?

I'm getting these files from this page:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/

--Jean

#13

...

You're still not answering my initial question, which is: What the heck
do I do, if anything, with this file, which is one of the FOUR files
provided on the download page for pre-release versions of LibO:
LibO-URE_3.4rc1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

All I want to know is whether to install that FIRST, or after the
regular LibO install file (the one you've mentioned here), or do I not
need to install the LibO-URE file at all?

I'm getting these files from this page:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/

--Jean

My apologies: I've never downloaded or used it. I'll give it a go & see
if I can figure out what/why.

#14

Solved that (somewhat); installing
libreoffice3.4-ure_3.4.0-1_i386.deb
(LibO-URE_3.4rc1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz)
breaks my 3.4.0B5 install.

$ /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/soffice
/opt/libreoffice3.4/program/oosplash.bin: /usr/lib/libuno_sal.so.3:
version `UDK_3.11' not found (required by
/opt/libreoffice3.4/program/oosplash.bin)

So... don't install it.

#15

Thanks for checking on that. I've been out all afternoon and found this
note from you when I got back. I've now installed LibO3.4rc1, apparently
successfully, and without that URE file.

I've also installed it on WinXP (where at least there was only one file
to deal with) and will be doing the same on Mac OS X, probably tomorrow.
Moving on...

--Jean

#16

Hi Jean,

OK, I guess I'm stupid or I got lost in all those words, but I still
don't see where it says *WHEN* to intall the LibO-URE file: *before* or
*after* the main LibO file.

Just ignore the URE-file. You don't need it, because it is already included in the main package.
This package is just for those people who whant to have some sort of LibO functionality without installing LibO, like those websites, that offer conversion of documents.

Sigrid

#17

Thanks, Sigrid. A short, to the point, answer to my original question,
and much appreciated.

It would certainly be nice if the pre-release page said that the file
is not needed for testing LibO betas and RCs. Therefore I am copying
this note to the Website list...

--Jean