Installing New Software

Hi everyone!

Having read about the latest LibreOffice version, I felt tempted to try it out. I uninstalled the default version on my Ubuntu machine and downloaded the .deb from the LibreOffice site and installed it. The new office has since worked without any trouble.

A few days later I decided to dump Unity and go back to Gnome. So I installed Ubuntu-Gnome-Desktop.

It was then that I noticed two versions of LibreOffice on the application dash (I think, because there are two sets of icons for each office application- see the attached screenshot).

Did Gnome install its own version of LibreOffice with it? Does it really have one? I don't know.

Whichever icon I use to launch the app, the office however always brings up the latest version. So, there's no problem in terms of application errors. As I thought there's no need to have an extra version of an app and eat up my space, I tried to uninstall through Aptitude, but it doesn't 'remove' LibreOffice.

Any advice, please! Thanks in advance.

I am trying to convert a PDF document from an Excel and PowerPoint document. I installed it and ran the command. It gives no warning.. Just doesn't create a new PDF document. I've successfully done this before, but I think it was a different server. I've checked file permissions, but don't think it is the issue (I've tried as a normal user and as root).

I could convert doc, docx, and txt files, but not xls, xlsx, ppt, and pptx files.

Thoughts why? Is there a verbose option or a log file which I could check for clues?

Thank you


Code:

yum -y install libreoffice-headless libreoffice-writer

Code:

Package 1:libreoffice-headless-4.0.4.2-14.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package 1:libreoffice-writer-4.0.4.2-14.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version

Code:

libreoffice --headless -convert-to pdf myfile.xlsx

Arch linux, lxdm/lxde, recent installation, feeling I must be doing something stupid, would be glad to be guided!

I have a Brother HL-2030 printer connected to a Raspberry Pi as a print server, CUPS setup, with sharing turned on. Other machines in the household, and indeed other OS's on the machine I'm writing on, print trouble-free to this printer.

On *this* desktop machine, (with libcups installed,) other programs print trouble-free. Firefox, Thunderbird, geany and evince all detect the presence of the network printer, and work as expected.

It's just Libreoffice that does not. This is true both of libreoffice-fresh and libreoffice-still, and it is true for all the components (write, draw, calc etc).

Libreoffice *does* find the network printer from other OS's that I play with; I have Puppy and Mint on the same machine, but those installs of Libreoffice are obviously different/earlier versions (nor do I feel like upgrading them in the circumstances!)

In this context, though, the Libreoffice "File>Printer settings..." menu offers me only a "Generic Printer" (whose properties and options I can edit). If I ask Libreoffice to print to this generic printer, it reports no failure, but that task just seems to disappear into thin air.

On the Pi server, /var/log/cups/ offers

Code:

# extract from /var/log/cups/access_log
# [...snip]
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 566 CUPS-Get-Printers server-error-version-not-supported
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] "POST /printers/Brother_HL-2030_series HTTP/1.1" 200 15824 Print-Job successful-ok
# the above line logs a successful print from geany
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:26:40 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 673 CUPS-Get-Default server-error-version-not-supported


# extract of /var/log/cups/error_log
# [...snip]
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:20 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:20 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:26:40 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Default (no URI) from 192.168.2.2

I really think I must be doing something very stupid and newbie-ish!

I have a PC with around 2 GB of RAM, a hard drive, a DVD drive, and USB ports, in a remote vacation home with no Internet access. I would like to install either Mint or Ubuntu and applications like LibreOffice.

In my permanent residence, I use Win 8.1 in a PC with internet access and Virtualbox to run other operating systems. I can use this to prepare the installation disks.

Is it possible to install the OS and then install software from a DVD or USB drive to a PC without Internet access? Also, is it possible to come up with a customized install disk containing the OS and software to install? If so, how do I go about preparing the installation disks?

Thanks for the help.

I'm running Xubuntu and it was a challenge just getting Copy.com on there. (I installed the desktop app on both of my computers.) Now that I have it though, I don't really know how to use it.

I know this is kind of more a Copy.com question, but I don't know anything about Copy.com (besides having it--lol) and besides, I like you LQ guys.

So yeah, I installed the desktop app for Copy.com on both of my computers. I know that if I put something in the Copy folder that will be available to both computers.

But how Copy does the backing up I don't know.

When I change a file or folder do I have to plop that into the Copy folder every time or does Copy somehow update the file or folder in the Copy folder automatically? (It doesn't seem to.)

Okay, when I, say, take the Documents folder from one computer and plop it into the Copy folder that's that. Then I take the Documents folder from the other computer and plop that into the Copy folder, then all the files from both folders will be in the Copy folder (and the Copy cloud), right?

Now I just removed a couple of files from a folder and copied and pasted the folder into the Copy folder. But then when I looked at the Copy folder the files I'd deleted were still there. What's the process? How does it work?

I mean, how does this work as a way of backing things up AND organizing things? To me it seems like a decent way of throwing stuff into the Copy folder (and cloud), but how is that different than Google Drive? I mean, that's not really a backup, is it? It's like a flash drive in the cloud.

And when I combined the same folders (with the same titles anyway, but they each had different files within them) from the two computers I'd expected each folder on each computer to have all the same files that were cumulatively on both. Instead, they're the same. And the cumulative is only on the Copy folder.

I like the notion of just throwing the folders and files into the Copy folder. It's much quicker than Google Drive. But the backing up feature eludes me and the syncing feature makes me fearful that I'll lose data or that the files will become hopelessly less organized.

Thanks.

hello everyone
I'm new with Linux,,I tried to install java by using the instructions in the link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmZu3U9DYk

the only problem appeared in the last step "java -version" is:



neaam@neaam-desktop:~$ java -version
bash: /usr/bin/java: cannot execute binary file

can anyone help me?

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I created a new user on my Fedora 21 system so I could demo Fedora and apps to coworkers without leaving my personal account exposed. After logging into the account I launched Firefox and verified connectivity without any problems. Then I launched Libre office and got the following nastygram
Code:

 The application cannot be started. 
LibreOffice user installation could not be processed due to missing access rights. Please make sure that you have sufficient access rights for the following location and restart LibreOffice:

/home/fedorademo/.config/libreoffice/4 

This looks like a variation of the folders being owned by root but that isn't the case with this account as everything is owned by the new account.
Code:

 [fedorademo@tesseract ~]$ pwd
/home/fedorademo
[fedorademo@tesseract ~]$ cd .config
[fedorademo@tesseract .config]$ ll
total 80
<snip>
drwxrwxr-x. 3 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:12 libreoffice
<snip>
[fedorademo@tesseract .config]$ cd libreoffice
[fedorademo@tesseract libreoffice]$ ll
total 4
drwx------. 3 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:12 4
[fedorademo@tesseract libreoffice]$ cd 4
[fedorademo@tesseract 4]$ ll
total 4
drwxrwxr-x. 9 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 user
[fedorademo@tesseract 4]$ cd user
[fedorademo@tesseract user]$ ll
total 32
drwxrwxr-x. 2 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 autotext
drwxrwxr-x. 3 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 basic
drwxrwxr-x. 2 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 config
drwxrwxr-x. 3 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 database
drwxrwxr-x. 2 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:12 extensions
drwxrwxr-x. 2 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:42 gallery
-rw-------. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  329 Feb  9 20:42 registrymodifications.xcu
drwxrwxr-x. 2 fedorademo fedorademo 4096 Feb  9 20:12 uno_packages
[fedorademo@tesseract user]$ cd  config
[fedorademo@tesseract config]$ ll
total 404
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   4308 Jan 16 18:28 arrowhd.soe
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  48408 Jan 16 18:27 autotbl.fmt
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  30852 Jan 16 18:28 classic.sog
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  13132 Jan 16 18:28 cmyk.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   4408 Jan 16 18:28 gallery.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   5238 Jan 16 18:28 hatching.soh
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  10766 Jan 16 18:28 html.soc
-rw-rw-r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   2329 Feb  9 20:12 javasettings_Linux_X86_64.xml
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   2334 Jan 16 18:28 libreoffice.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   6840 Jan 16 18:28 modern.sog
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   5271 Jan 16 18:28 palette.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  31320 Jan 16 18:28 scribus.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo 155895 Jan 16 18:28 standard.sob
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  11461 Jan 16 18:28 standard.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   2426 Jan 16 18:28 standard.sod
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   4984 Jan 16 18:28 standard.soe
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   5080 Jan 16 18:28 standard.sog
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   2171 Jan 16 18:28 standard.soh
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   1708 Jan 16 18:28 styles.sod
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo   2331 Jan 16 18:28 tango.soc
-rw-r--r--. 1 fedorademo fedorademo  14420 Jan 16 18:28 web.soc
[fedorademo@tesseract config]$ 

And so on
I've tried it with an admin account and a standard account in Fedora 21 and both fail.
I tried it with a standard account in Fedora 20 and it worked.
Fedora 20 is running a slightly older version of Libreoffice 4.2.8.2-2.fc20
Fedora 21 is running 4.3.5.2-11.fc21. Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this would be appreciated. Right now I can't tell if it is a LibreOffice problem or a Fedora problem. Thanks for reading

As a newbie, I started with Linux ubuntu 14.04. I try to avoid using terminal commands. FamilyTreeBuilder was not possible.

After upgrading to ubuntu 14.10 I was able to install (with Q4Wine 1.1-r2) MyHeritage FamilyTreeBuilder sw nearly saccesfully. After installation when I try to open program it tries to make a customer data folder. That will give an error message:
Couldnt make folder: C:\user\peter\My Documents\MyHeritage\

FamilyTreeBuilder does not give any possibility to change the path.

I have SSD (sda = C: ) for Linux and separate HDD (sdb = D: ) for my files. For some reason, I am not allowed to write any files to sda (???).

Can anybody help?
P4sblom 17/02/2015

hi,

Because i am cross compiling busybox for an arm board and can't install directy busybox on it (it don't have apt-get/sudo/make) i tried to compile busybox with arm-linux-gcc and "make" it in a custom directory with /usr/ /bin/ sbin/ this way i could copy paste the folder and the exe in a clean root and transfert this root to my board.

Sadly i don't seems to be able to change the installation patch.
i tried with :
Code:

make install PREFIX=/home/blabla1/blabla2/blabla3

but when going into the blabla3 folder i find no file (/usr/ /bin/ and /sbin/ are present because i created them myself).

./configure can't be used because the file don't exist.

Any idea on how i could change the installation patch ?