[ale] just installed LibreOffice in Linux, should have been easier

[atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com (Ron Frazier)]

Could you explain what that does? Are you saying enter both commands on 
the same line like you typed it?

Sincerely,

Ron

On 03/15/2011 01:22 PM, JD wrote:
> Perhaps I'm crazy, but I always do
>
> sudo apt-get update&&   sudo apt-get upgrade
>
>
> together before installing any new packages.  This keeps all the
> underlying packages current - that could be the issue you are seeing
> between the different systems.  In real-time programming, this is known
> as data homogeneity.  All the data on a specific thread/priority cannot
> be changed by outside priorities until the thread/priority finishes.
> Basically, you get consistent data before you begin processing.
>
> I do agree that not doing the "upgrade" should work provided you aren't
> too out of date with patches. I've just never wanted to test that.
>
>
>
> On 03/15/2011 12:42 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
>    
>> Preston,
>>
>> I can't say what happened. The commands below worked on the other PC's
>> with no problem. PC #3 is running the same version of Ubuntu, but the
>> process failed and threw the errors I posted. I tried it yesterday, but
>> I have no explanation. Once I installed that one package manually, the
>> rest worked. I actually did the last two commands from synaptic, but the
>> result should be the same either way.
>>
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install libreoffice
>> sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> On 03/15/2011 11:17 AM, Preston Boyington wrote:
>>      
>>> Ron Frazier wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I was trying to install Libre Office on my 3rd PC using the PPA as
>>>> described in prior posts. It threw up a bunch of dependency errors:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> <SNIPPED>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I tried the same thing from synaptic and got the same result. From
>>>> synaptic, I installed libreoffice-common manually, then was able to
>>>> install libreoffice and libreoffice-gnome with no problem. I don't know
>>>> what was different on this PC, but it seems to be working now.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> just curious, but has the PPA been updated or is your Ubuntu system
>>> using slightly different sources?
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>
>    

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