Openoffice - libreoffice

[Paul Stear]

On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 14:26:58 Clay Weber wrote:
> 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?
<snip>
> 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
Thank you very much Clay,
I followed your instructions then installed libreoffice 3.4.1, loaded up my 
spreadsheets, made changes and saved......All OK
Thanks again
Paul