running LO and AOO at the same time on ubuntu
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 11:53 pm
I started using ubuntu 16.04 a couple months ago. It came with LO (5.1.4.2). I was learning AOO Base under windows before switching to ubuntu.
Writer and calc are ok, but I'm having trouble with LO Base and getting nowhere toward a resolution. To get work done, I want to install AOO and use it as I did before. Under windows I had LO and AOO installed side by side, and I could use either one.
This page says to remove LO in order to install AOO. I'd rather not do that, in case my AOO install doesn't work and I'm stuck without any office s/w at all.
This page talks about removing a symlink to soffice, explaining "This will NOT remove LibreOffice, this will only disallow LibreOffice to redirect the normal OpenOffice binary -- typically /usr/bin/soffice -- to libreoffice instead."
I don't know what that means. Does it mean that I wouldn't be able to use LO unless I recreated the symlink? Would recreating the symlink disable AOO?
The title of this thread seems to talk about using both LO and AOO side by side as before.
Most of the thread seems to talk about creating desktop shortcuts. But in the first post it says, "I installed OpenOffice without running the desktop integration deb."
I don't know what that means. I used to work with ksh scripts on unix 10 years ago, so I'm familiar with the command line and scripts. But this environment is very different.
I have the AOO *tar.gz downloaded. Can someone walk me through a procedure to set up what I want? If it's possible.
Thanks
Writer and calc are ok, but I'm having trouble with LO Base and getting nowhere toward a resolution. To get work done, I want to install AOO and use it as I did before. Under windows I had LO and AOO installed side by side, and I could use either one.
This page says to remove LO in order to install AOO. I'd rather not do that, in case my AOO install doesn't work and I'm stuck without any office s/w at all.
This page talks about removing a symlink to soffice, explaining "This will NOT remove LibreOffice, this will only disallow LibreOffice to redirect the normal OpenOffice binary -- typically /usr/bin/soffice -- to libreoffice instead."
I don't know what that means. Does it mean that I wouldn't be able to use LO unless I recreated the symlink? Would recreating the symlink disable AOO?
The title of this thread seems to talk about using both LO and AOO side by side as before.
Most of the thread seems to talk about creating desktop shortcuts. But in the first post it says, "I installed OpenOffice without running the desktop integration deb."
I don't know what that means. I used to work with ksh scripts on unix 10 years ago, so I'm familiar with the command line and scripts. But this environment is very different.
I have the AOO *tar.gz downloaded. Can someone walk me through a procedure to set up what I want? If it's possible.
Thanks