nautilus + terminal

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2011-03-07 02:00:39 skrev Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp>:

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> (2011/03/07 7:42), Tony Pursell wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 11:53 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>> On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:29:26PM +0000, Tony Pursell wrote:
>>>
>>>            .........snip.........
>>>
>>>> I wonder how you installed LibreOffice?  It is not available in the
>>>> current version of Ubuntu so you can only install it from a source  
>>>> like
>>>> LibreOffice itself.  This means that the instructions you are given do
>>>> not necessarily come from Ubuntu.
>>> Then why is it in my 10.04 synaptic? I have no repos in my sources.list
>>> file other than Ubuntu ones. BTW, I installed it from the Ubuntu repos
>>> and later uninstalled it.
>>>
>> That is interesting! Its not in the 10.10 repos. If what you say is
>> true, then it must be down to the new policy of including more upgrades,
>> as well as bug fixes, in the LTS versions.
>>
>> If the OP was using 10.04 then, they would have be able to do a simple
>> install from synaptic (or even Ubuntu Software Centre).
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Thank you all.
> Installation of LibreOffice was not really soo difficult. I did that on  
> one machine running 10.04 and one 10.10.
> I downloaded the file from the official website, unpacked that file  
> someplace and then had to run this "dpkg" command. (according to the  
> instructions for installing LO for Ubuntu).
>
> The problem/nuisance (to my taste) is just that I have to "change  
> directory".
> In a terminal I have to type $ cd  
> .................................................................. which  
> goes on forever.
> Being able to simply right-click on a certain folder and run the "dpkg"  
> command seems a lot easier to me  ... and being basically lazy I would  
> prefer the "easy way".
> I will try the extension later in the day.
>

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Johnny Rosenberg