Libre Office 4.0

[merelyjim]

Okay... I'm going to download and try the new Libre Office 4.0.
I don't' exactly know how (or why I need it) but if you're running Debian Sid, you might as well get the benefits of running bleeding-edge.
Any ideas before I go all "mad scientist" in an hour or two?

[VastOne]

I can grab it and check it out at the same time and compare notes...!

[VastOne]

BTW, it is in Debian Experimental... which is in your sources..

I will install it that way and let you know how it goes

[lwfitz]

Maybe a stupid question (Im not on a sid right now) but isnt that the version that is installed by default with

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get libreoffice ?

Or was that still 3.6?


If 4.0 is the default then it is fantastic. I use it everyday without any issues at all

[merelyjim]

You'll beat me to it, then...
Not at home, and doing this over the phone. 
Ah, well...

[VastOne]

Here is what is available

vastone@vsido:~$ se libreoffice

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libreoffice:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4
  Version table:
     1:4.0.0-1 0
        100 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
     1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages


[VastOne]

To install it in VSIDO (from Debian Experimental) do this:

sudo apt-get -t experimental install libreoffice

Scratch that

Dependency Hell

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libreoffice : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:4.0.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-writer but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-calc but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-impress but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-draw but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-math but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-base but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-report-builder-bin but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-filter-mobiledev but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: python3-uno (>= 4.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
                        python-uno but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libreoffice-java-common (>= 1:4.0.0~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[lwfitz]

Awesome, thanks for clearing that up VastOne. Installing now

[merelyjim]

Downloading the main and help *.deb files directly.
Android phone asking me what the hell I think I'm doing... 

[VastOne]

Better check my edit first....

[jst_joe]

@VastOne
Thanks for the post I was thinking about trying it to see if it would open and edit MS Publisher files.
That's the only thing keeping me from going 100% Linux.

[Sector11]

Microsoft Publisher support makes its way to LibreOffice but I can't find 3.7 

3.7/4.0 Bug List though

[jst_joe]

^ Thanks!
I've bookmarked the links and will keep an eye on them.
People ask me why I don't like M$ so much.
I tell them, "Besides it being a resource hog."
And don't bitch at me when I charge you to upgrade your sh!t to Windoze 9! 

[Sector11]

↑  You're welcome.

If I can help you become 100% Linux I'll do my part. 

[jst_joe]

^ Well as you can see Gimp and I kind of have grown quite an acquaintance for each other.
However I help with a newsletter for some folks that kind of depend on me (publisher files) and they would be lost without M$.
Poor souls. 

[Edit] To add;
That's the only reason I have booted to my Windoze partition in the last several months and I almost cringe when I do that.