Debconf_12_nicaragua


Debian Conference 2012 will be in Managua, Nicaragua!

Its official, Nicaragua will be hosting the Debian Conference  2012!!


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Android Tablet Raffle!

On February 16, 2011, in Belize, free software, Linux, News, by Mark

Android Tablet Up for Raffle!
Raffle Date: March 26, 2011. At Sacred Heart College Business Fair


Android 2.2Droid BoxAndroid Tablet

- 8″ x 5″

- Wireless Internet 802.11B/G
- Built in Speaker
- 800MHZ Processor
- Micro SD Card slot
- USB 2.0
- Standard headphone jack
- Fully touch screen interface
- HDMI

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About LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute.

libreoffice

LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms.

It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute.This is openoffice fork.

Note:- This is still in beta stage so don’t install in production systems

Install libreoffice in ubuntu

Before installing libreoffice you need to remove open office using the following command using the terminal

sudo apt-get remove – -purge openoffice*.*

Note:- Removing openoffice is optional you can run openoffice and libreoffice side by side

First you need to download libreoffice tar.gz file from here http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/

Once you downloaded you can extract this file by right click on it and select extract here now you should be having en-US folder inside this you should be able to see DEBS folder.Installing all these deb files are easy from command line so open the terminal and run the following comamnd

sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/en-US/DEBS/*.deb

Finally you need to install desktop integration deb package using the following command

sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/libreoffice3.3-debian-menus_3.3-9526_all.deb

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How to install libreoffice in ubuntu using deb packages.

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