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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Ubuntu: How to upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10

Ubuntu 10.10 is out today. Here is the tutorials for how to upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10.

1.Open the release-upgrade from terminal

sudo gedit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrade and set prompt=normal


2.Go to System->Administration->update manager->check



Then press the upgrade button.The upgrade process will begun



Sunday, October 3, 2010

Ubuntu: How to install Libreoffice



Here is the tutorial for how to install libreoffice in ubuntu instead of open office..

In terminal type the following for download.

cd Desktop

wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/LO_3.3.0-beta1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

Exatract and save.

Then

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

After installation


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

Goto Applications->Office



1. Libre office 3.3 Writer


2.Libreoffice 3.3 Calc




You can use libreoffice and openoffice. Removing open office not necessary