Upgrade OO 3.1 to LO 3.3

[frogotronic]

Hi,

Using Karmic, want to "upgrade" OpenOffice 3.1 to LibreOffice 3.3.

Should I uninstall OO 3.1 and install LO 3.3, or should I try to install over-top of existing OO 3.1?

Thanks,
CH

[ajgreeny]

I think you can run them side by side, according to something I read a month or two ago, but don't take that as gospel truth as I could be remembering wrongly.

How do you intend to install? If you download the suite from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ and unpack all the debs from the tarball into a new folder in your home, you can install with
sudo dpkg -i *.deb run from that folder, and I think the suite is then installed into /opt, totally separate from Open Office.

However I have just seen there is at last a final release of 3.3 which is available from a ppa https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter= for lucid and maverick, but I've no idea about karmic

[jonbonjovi]

It you add the ppa of Libo and try to install it from there, Synaptic will force you to uninstall OOo. Which is what I did.

[frogotronic]

It you add the ppa of Libo and try to install it from there, Synaptic will force you to uninstall OOo. Which is what I did.

What's the PPA for Karmic?

- CH

[jonbonjovi]

Try this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

[frogotronic]

Try this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

nope, empty for LO