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On 27/11/11 08:19, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> 
> So wifey has been getting along with Linux for some months now and
> in-genral most things are fine... owever she's recently been writing a
> report for a client and it's 50 pages with some images, tables, diagrams
> and so on - and OOo is crashing. She tells me it's worse then any
> version of Office ever was.
> 
> So this is quite a blow.
> 
> So what next? Get the latest OOo and manually install it (She's running
> Debian Stable) or manually install LibreOffice?
> 
> Anyone moved to LO from OOo? How different are the menus, controls, etc?
> (because that's the biggest concern my wife seems to have!)

You can install libreoffice from squeeze-backports, details below but
basically it is adding a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then
apt-get update && apt-get install -t squeeze-backports libreoffice

Regards,
Mike.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Debian moves to LibreOffice
> Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:35:10 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:27:31 +0200
> From: Meike Reichle <meike@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: press@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: debian-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Debian Project                                 http://www.debian.org/
> Debian moves to LibreOffice                              press@xxxxxxxxxx
> June 23rd, 2011                  http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110623
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Debian moves to LibreOffice
> 
> The Debian project is proud to announce that the transition from
> OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice has now been completed. LibreOffice has
> already been available for "testing" and "unstable" since March and has
> now been backported to Debian 6.0 "Squeeze", too.
> 
> Rene Engelhard, Debian's LibreOffice maintainer and member of
> LibreOffice's Engineering Steering Committee, says: "I am sure Debian and
> its users will benefit greatly from this transition; I expect not only an
> improved collaboration but also quicker development cycles."
> 
> 
> Installation of LibreOffice
> 
> Interested users of the current stable release Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" may
> add the following line in their /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> 
> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
> 
> After adding this, perform an update and install the package libreoffice
> from the squeeze-backports suite using the package management software of
> your choice (e.g. apt-get update ; apt-get install -t squeeze-backports
> libreoffice). Previously installed OpenOffice.org packages should be
> uninstalled automatically. Depending on the used desktop environment, you
> might also have to install the libeoffice-gtk, libreoffice-gnome or
> libreoffice-kde packages.
> 
> 
> More information on backports can be found on the backports.debian.org
> webpage at http://backports-master.debian.org/.
> 
> 
> About LibreOffice
> -----------------
> 
> LibreOffice is a free software office suite developed by The Document
> Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org.
> 
> 
> About Debian
> ------------
> 
> The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
> community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
> largest and most influential open source projects.  Thousands of
> volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
> Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
> of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
> 
> 
> Contact Information
> -------------------
> 
> For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
> http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press@xxxxxxxxxx>.
> 

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