Openoffice - libreoffice

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 07:23:08 AM Paul Stear wrote:
> Hi all,
> Ever since I installed the latest kubuntu, which had libreoffice by
> default, I have not been able to save my OpenOffice spreadsheets.
> When I try and save changed the program just crashes, even if I open as
> root. I can't see any logs and if I start calc in a terminal, no
> information about the crash is displayed.
> I have copied these spreadsheets to windows 7 and they work fine and save
> in OpenOffice.
> 
> How can I completely remove libreoffice and install just OpenOffice?
> 
> Thanks for any help
> Paul
> Sorry I sent the original from the wrong address.
If you haven't already, have you tried saving the document with a different 
name?

Also running the program with sudo or even kdesudo can possibly create 
permissioins problems for the files and configurations the program uses. 
There is never a need in the vast majority of cases to run a spreadsheet 
application with admin permissions. If you can save with a different name or to 
a different location, that could indicate a permissions problem with the file(s)

But to the question at hand, you simply uninstall all the libreoffice packages, 
though removing these 2 should also remove all the others as well:

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core libreoffice.

then go and download openoffice from their website
http://download.openoffice.org/other.html
look for the deb download link for either 64 or 32 bit as you require


or perhaps give the just-released 3.4.1 of LO a try:
http://www.libre-software.net/how-to-install-libreoffice-on-ubuntu-linux-
mint

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Clay Weber
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