Problems with installing/uninstalling

[brian]

Hi again..
My apologies for my ignorance, as I am not a programmer at all..

I've tried to uninstall LibreOffice, but to no avail. (I downloaded OpenOffice and installed it, but I can't find it anywhere.) What am I doing wrong?

Thanks ahead of time..

Brian

[martinw]

To uninstall LibreOffice:

1) From the Mageia main menu, select "Install & Remove Software". This should bring up a new window with the title "Software Management" (it will probably bring up a pop-up window asking you to enter your root password first).

2) In the Software Management window, change the two pull-down options to the left of the "Find" box to "All" and "All", then type "libreoffice" in the "Find" box and press <Enter>. You should then see a list of sofware packages associated with LibreOffice. Go through the list and remove any ticks in the left hand column of the list. Then click on the "Apply" button at the bottom of the "Software Management" window.

To install OpenOffice:

1) Download a RPM based OOo binary bundle from the OpenOffice.org website. This should have a name something like "OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm-wJRE_en-GB.tar.gz" (make sure the name includes "rpm"). If you do this from a machine running Mageia, it should automatically select the correct binary bundle for you.

2) In the directory where you saved the binary bundle do

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tar xzf OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm-wJRE_en-GB.tar.gz
cd OOO330_m20_native_packed-1_en-GB.9567
./setup


and follow the instructions in the OOo installer. You will need to modify the above commands to match the exact names of the OOo version you have downloaded.

This should add OpenOffice to the Mageia main menu (in the "Office" section). You should also see the OpenOffice packages listed if you enter "openoffice" in the "Find" box in the Software Management window.

Note that once you have installed OpenOffice, every time you do a Mageia software update, it will try to replace it with LibreOffice. This seems to be an annoyance we just have to put up with

[brian]

To uninstall LibreOffice:

1) From the Mageia main menu, select "Install & Remove Software". This should bring up a new window with the title "Software Management" (it will probably bring up a pop-up window asking you to enter your root password first).

2) In the Software Management window, change the two pull-down options to the left of the "Find" box to "All" and "All", then type "libreoffice" in the "Find" box and press <Enter>. You should then see a list of sofware packages associated with LibreOffice. Go through the list and remove any ticks in the left hand column of the list. Then click on the "Apply" button at the bottom of the "Software Management" window.

To install OpenOffice:

1) Download a RPM based OOo binary bundle from the OpenOffice.org website. This should have a name something like "OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm-wJRE_en-GB.tar.gz" (make sure the name includes "rpm"). If you do this from a machine running Mageia, it should automatically select the correct binary bundle for you.

2) In the directory where you saved the binary bundle do

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tar xzf OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm-wJRE_en-GB.tar.gz
cd OOO330_m20_native_packed-1_en-GB.9567
./setup


and follow the instructions in the OOo installer. You will need to modify the above commands to match the exact names of the OOo version you have downloaded.

This should add OpenOffice to the Mageia main menu (in the "Office" section). You should also see the OpenOffice packages listed if you enter "openoffice" in the "Find" box in the Software Management window.

Note that once you have installed OpenOffice, every time you do a Mageia software update, it will try to replace it with LibreOffice. This seems to be an annoyance we just have to put up with

HI martinw,
Thanks for the help. Although I have a version of OpenOffice downloaded, I thought I might as well re-install LibreOffice first (since I like it), to see if the problem I was having (the file button in the top left of Writer was self-activating and de-activating, and interrupting my typing) has been solved.
I'll see if the bug is gone now that I've re-installed. Otherwise I'll have to install OpenOffice.

Thanks much!

Brian