

The Synaptic Package Manager is good for this.Īs for installing OpenOffice (for reference), I can’t see any packages in the repositories… so the user would probably have to grab a copy from their website.When a group of German coders at OpenOffice (belonging to database major, Oracle) finally forked away on Sept28th 2010 there was much for everybody to talk about while Oracle OpenOffice maintained dignified silence. Since the entire suite isn’t installed, trying to remove libreoffice isn’t enough, you’d have to remove libreoffice-writer, libreoffice-impress, libreoffice-calc, etc. Other than that, I had no problems leaving ubuntu-mate-desktop removed between 15.04 to 15.10. The only possible problem is during upgrades where new applications for that release wouldn’t be added (I believe). You can uninstall LibreOffice if you wanted to (would free up over 130 MB), but it’ll also want to remove ubuntu-mate-desktop - It wouldn’t break the system, it’s simply a meta-package that acts as a list of all packages that come pre-installed with the Ubuntu MATE Desktop. I’m definetly not a LO “power-user”, but if you can fill out some of the details, others might be able to help you to get the most out of your LO installation. My understanding is that LO is deeply intertwined with the distro and that trying to remove LO can break your system (this may or not be true, perhaps someone might be able to confirm?). So it might be worth trying to iron out the LO “bugginess”. Īlthough Oo continues to be developed, the lions’ share of developers seem to have switched their efforts to LO. Has the person in question read the LibreOffice manuals for the moduls (Writer, Calc, etc.) they are trying to use?Īre they going about achieving their desired result the wrong way (see last question)?

Buggy - are there details about “buggy” (mine runs fine on an 8 year old rig, a 10 year old laptop and a 5 year old piece of apple hardware).Īre any other programs showing “bugginess”?
