Openoffice.org 3.1.0 on Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu 8.04.1
So I have *finally* received the 9 inch Dell mini that I had ordered over a month ago. The device pre-installed with Ubuntu was much more preferable, even though the release is a couple of versions old now.
Everything is great so far, but the first thing that i had to do was update the version of OpenOffice.org being used. Its not so much that I have any problems with version 2.4, but rather everything else I am using is version 3.0 or 3.1. I have seen several issues when opening and transferring an *.odt between varying versions of openoffice. Its never fun to lose or mess up formating.
Luckily for me, there were only a couple of dependencies that had to be resolved and the packages I lost, didn't really impact me.
First off, I had to add the project that maintains the lastest OOo for Ubuntu. Either through the GUI or to /etc/apt/sources.list, add
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu hardy main
and then wget their key and import it. I panzied out and used the GUI to import it.
http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release.gpg
you next apt-get update, and should remove the following to packages, and all their dependencies.
aptitude remove openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
at which point, you are clear to do an
aptitude dist-upgrade
all done!
take care,
vb
jre and jdk version 1.5 for slackware-12.2 (and -current for that matter)
due to my current line of work, i am not able to completely migrate to the latest stable java, version 6, that ships with slackware-12.2 and slackware-current.
i have taken a snapshot of the last slackware build scripts, for java 1.5 and have kept them updated for the latest jre and jdk updates.
you can find them here for the jdk and the jre
currently it is on 1.5.0 update 17, but this is an svn directory, so it may bump versions at a later date.
enjoy,
vb
kde-4.1.96 for slackware-current
again, for those who are on slackware-current, and are taking part of the kde4 packages in /testing. i've posted the latest build of kde-4.2rc1 (4.1.96)
these pacakges are on cardinal (http://cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/kde/kde4-packages/)
you should upgradepkg to the latest version'ed pacakges in the deps/ directory as well.
enjoy !
so long twitter
last night, while sitting on the couch with my wife. we had a brief discussion on the instant, constant, and far too imediate communication that comes with a service like twitter. so i absolve, so long world of twitter. today i deleted my account entirely. micro blogging is too much. i enjoyed getting to know people, real people. not pretending to be associated with a cluster of people, just to say that i'm a part of the pulse of the world. this lonely blog gives me more than ample outlet to voice myself. and much more realistic pulse of connection to the heartbeat of the world.
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Update: April 2009
i would almost delete this post completely, since i have resended my decision on twitter and re-activated my vbatts account, except for i am not going to deny that i did at one point delete my twitter account. i have heard enough of the various news and current event sources that i listen to, announce that they to have a twitter account. it is like an interactive news feed. further, i have official heard of some good that twitter served. with the recent policy changes, the twitter-verse started chatting up a storm to the extent that corporate executives and publisher advocacy groups took notice and began making imediate corrections to the tag filtering, within 48 hours of implementing the new change.
other links
- Amazon Says It Will Correct Its Search Function
- Amazon Learns A Painful Lesson About The Twitter Hashtag