Comments on: The Ubuntu 14.10 Upgrade: What to do https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/ Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/#comment-483354 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:29:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20439#comment-483354 In reply to orai.

It might be his nickname!

]]> By: orai https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/#comment-483353 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:24:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20439#comment-483353 *Linux* Torvalds? Seriously?
Otherwise, excellent post.

]]> By: Matrix0027 https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/#comment-483352 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:24:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20439#comment-483352 Excellent post. I could not have said it better, totally agree with you.

]]> By: Update Ubuntu 14.10 | Kuplux's https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/#comment-483351 Sat, 22 Nov 2014 03:01:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20439#comment-483351 […] Post Title : The ubuntu 14.10 upgrade: what to do – greg laden’s blog Source : scienceblogs.com Read More : The ubuntu 14.10 upgrade: what to do – greg laden’s blog […]

]]> By: Update To Ubuntu 14.10 | Kuplux's https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/#comment-483350 Sat, 22 Nov 2014 02:59:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20439#comment-483350 […] Post Title : The ubuntu 14.10 upgrade: what to do – greg laden’s blog Source : scienceblogs.com Read More : The ubuntu 14.10 upgrade: what to do – greg laden’s blog […]

]]> By: Lucho https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/#comment-483349 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:30:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20439#comment-483349 My experience after upgrading to 14.10 was awful as I could not use Microsoft Office in wine and I f(•@#$#%) hate Libreoffice. In fact, It’s crap for a professional writing. For you to have an idea, only since last year Libreoffice allowed me (through an extension) to place the number of the pages. Thus, I was not able to place numbers in the pages of my manuscript. Besides, it makes a mess with footnotes –even more from a .doc file- and they don’t look nice or takes three times more to do it.
And suppose you start from the beginning to write in Libreoffice, it takes you more time to adjust the footnotes, to work easily with “styles”, to place commentaries in a text. I do not support Microsoft and I think it is monster only comparable with Mac. But Libreoffice, unfortunately, is not a real option for to draft a thesis, a book or even a journal article. It may work for the grocery’ list but not for a professional typewriting.

]]> By: 10 Or 20 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/#comment-483348 Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:04:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20439#comment-483348 […] See: The Ubuntu 14.10 Upgrade: What to do […]

]]> By: 10+ Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/#comment-483347 Sat, 25 Oct 2014 01:59:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20439#comment-483347 […] There is some discussion of whether or not you should upgraded to 14.10 here, but the short version is, for most people an upgrade from 14.04 is not necessary but not a bad idea, and an upgrade from any earlier version is a very good idea. Mostly, though, you should just upgrade. […]

]]> By: samar https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/#comment-483346 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:11:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20439#comment-483346 This has been a very worthwhile to-and-fro conversation for someone who is currently frustrated by the idea of Unity and also frustrated with some of the difficulties some of the applications I use face with desktops such as Mint.

I have been using Linux for about 15 years, but my focus has always been on whether a distribution can help me do the work I want to do. Distribution-du-jour is not my thing.

Having said that, I must admit that much as I hate to say it, Brainstorms has convinced me of the long term desirability of trying to get along with Unity.

Thank you all. It’s been great reading, with special thanks to Greg and Brainstorms.

]]> By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/10/04/the-ubuntu-14-10-upgrade-what-to-do/#comment-483345 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:31:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20439#comment-483345 Argon,

MS Office 2010 SP1 & SP2 are both “Silver” for Linux. I’m running v14.0.6023.1000 (32-bit) which is (I believe) Pro Plus SP 1. You can install Office then install service packs afterwards; I’ve verified that works, too.

I’ve had MS Office 2010 in Crossover installed/running on a number of different machines in Ubuntu 12.04 through 14.04. It runs Excel spreadsheets with macros. (I’ve not tried running VBA code — not that I’m aware of.)

There are a number of libraries that need to be installed to make it work — CodeWeavers’ installer checks your system and informs you of which ones you need.

However, having accumulated that list, I now install via a script that always runs
sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386
(needed if installing on a 64-bit Linux)
then installs these packages:

python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-qt4 icoutils libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libxcursor1:i386 lib32nss-mdns libc6:i386 liblcms2-2:i386 libcups2:i386 libasound2:i386 libosmesa6:i386 libxrender1:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libxext6:i386 libsm6:i386 libpng12-0:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386 libgstreamer0.10-0:i386

and there’s never any issues getting MS Office (2000, 2007, 2010) to install and run properly.

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