Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Libreoffice over OpenOffice

LibreOffice is like OpenOffice. Only OpenOffice was acquired by Oracle and later released under Apache Software Foundation and lags a bit in terms of features. For example, LibreOffice has the insert table / chart / video icon in the middle, lines seem to be straighter, but it still has the same problem of missing second-level bullet points when opening .PPT ...

http://joesteiger.com/2011/03/23/install-libreoffice-ubuntu-10-10/


# NOTE: This will uninstall openoffice because libreoffice does not play with it!
sudo apt-get purge openoffice*.*

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-gnome language-support-en

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