Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office

On 04/07/2011 04:38 AM, Stefano Fraccaro wrote:
> Hi Bernard,
>     I can't understand your help request. What have you downloaded? 
> LibreOffice or another office suite? Which version? What do you mean 
> about "only got a database"? Which operating system are you using?
>
> Stefano
>
> Il 06/04/2011 22.29, Bernard Riches ha scritto:
> > Help what did I do wrong? I thought I was downloading an office suite 
> > of programs but only got a database. I find the Libre site difficult 
> > for a Klutz like me to understand even though I started off with DOS 
> > 4 way way back. It is one of the reasons I have never got into Linux 
> > – everyone is assumed to be not only computer literate but wanting a 
> > challenge. At my age i prefer a simple life.
> >
> > Please help

> > Bernard
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.3.2/win/x86/LibO_3.3.2_Win_x86_install_all_lang.exe

This is the link directly to the Windows Download for LibreOffice 3.3.2 
All language version.

http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.3.2/win/x86/LibO_3.3.2_Win_x86_install_multi.exe

This is for the smaller Multi Language version, if you just need English.

http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.3.2/win/x86/LibO_3.3.2_Win_x86_helppack_en-US.exe

Here is the help pack for US English.

As for "what you did wrong", I do not know how you got the data base 
only, since the install file[s] you must download will install all the 
modules [Writer, Calc, Base, etc.], not just one.  Please download the 
software package again from either the above links or the ones I have 
provided below.  Then install the LibreOffice 3.3.2 package.  You should 
get all of the modules this time.

Bernard, you and I started a long way back.  I started with MS Dos 2.1, 
I think.  I bult my first computer from a Kit.  It was a PC-XT 286 dual 
floppy monochrome system with no hard drive and a few meg of ram.  I 
started programming using punch cards and a teletype-style 
printer/terminal.  Those were the good-old-days.

I am assuming that you use Windows and English is your language of 
choice.  Try this link and see if it is easer for you to use. 
http://libreoffice-na.us/English-Windows/install.html  This is a 
work-in-progress Windows-only site based upon the Multi-Platform site of 
http://libreoffice-na.us/English/install.html  Both will be made into 
DVDs for distribution.  These to DVD sites are mostly the same except 
for the installs.  One has all the supported platforms that LibreOffice 
has, plus the extra free software packages in those platforms [Windows, 
Linux, Mac OSX].  The other has only Windows packages.  The sites has 
the same lists of dictionaries, extensions, templates, and sample files 
and artwork.  The LibreOffice default site [ 
http://www.libreoffice.org/  ] is a nice site, but it is designed for 
the International community. I personally like their site for their 
effort to make it one that either has, or points to, most of what you 
might need as a LibreOffice user. The North American Community DVD site 
[ http://libreoffice-na.us/  ] was designed as a testing site for a DVD 
dedicated for the North American communities we serve.  We use a 
different site format, which was originally designed by the 
LibreOffice-Box team for their European community, but originally in German.


As for Windows vs. Linux, that is a big issue.  I was a Windows-only 
person till a few years ago.  At that time I could no longer afford to 
buy all of the Windows packages I needed to use.  I found out that Linux 
had the software I needed and it was for free.

As for using Linux, here is a link to an article that talks about where 
Linux is being used.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/20-years-of-linux-down-and-the-best-is-yet-to-come/8613?tag=mantle_skin;content

We who use Linux as or desktop environment are few in number, but are 
growing.  Linux has proved a more stable computer platform, over 
Windows, for most server, industrial, and Internet needs.  So it is used 
more than Windows for the "backbone" computer systems worldwide.  
Windows is a nice desktop, but it had its bad ones as well.  I hate 
Vista on my laptop, but that and an old Windows 2000 tablet are my only 
two Windows computers.  My desktop and file server are running Linux.

<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/20-years-of-linux-down-and-the-best-is-yet-to-come/8613?tag=mantle_skin;content>

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