Can only open Libre Office from SUDO command line Attention Avi Greenbury

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Pongo A. Pan <pongo_pan at fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 00:42 +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>
>> Actually it is:
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/business
>
> It is hard to tell if this link refers to the newly-announced "business
> remix" or the mainline Ubuntu distribution.

That web address has been there for quite some time. It is not there
since Business Remix.


>  In any case the mere claim
> that Ubuntu in any flavor is an "Enterprise-grade distribution" doesn't
> make it one.  It doesn't have the same level of support as RHEL or the
> SuSE equivalent, although Canonical would like to have us believe it
> does.  Canonical does not seem to have any data available on corporate
> or small business adoption, so one must assume that there is little to
> brag about.  It's still overwhelmingly a hobbyist thing I think, with
> enough bugs to make it interesting for hobbyists and scary for business.

I am concerned myself about some cutting-edge UI experiments, like
Unity, or the upcoming HUD, on a distribution being considered
Enterprise, however I think it is an Enterprise distribution so far.



>> > Or apt-get remove --purge libreoffice
>>
>> I do not think that these two are the same. purge doesn't erase users'
>> preferences/data, only system-wide configurations, like configuration
>> files in /etc.
>
> Yeah, you rite...
>
> I don't know if the OP ever tried doing things as another user.  This
> would sort out the global/per user configuration issue.

That's a good alternative for the test I suggested (erasing user's
LibreOffice configuration files/directories).


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