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Any idea why openoffice is there in up4?

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:40 pm
by Inkit
While browsing through the updates I came across both openoffice as well as libreoffice in the list. I do not have openoffice installed in my system and have no idea why it is being updated. I have unchecked those updates along with a few others (such as the kernel update - I'm only going with the pae update) and want to know if this update is a dependency for something else or ...

Re: Any idea why openoffice is there in up4?

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:15 am
by zerozero
Inkit, open synaptic and do a search for openoffice.
yes, you'll see a lot of pkgs showing up, but most of them are transitional pkgs openoffice/libreoffice or pkgs where the branding and/or openoffice reference is still kept.
what matters (at least i believe so) is that the office suite you have installed is libreoffice.

Re: Any idea why openoffice is there in up4?

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 5:36 pm
by Inkit
Thanks zerozero. Will install it.