04-27-2020, 11:14 PM
Thank you [member=5414]firenice03[/member] and [member=7109]Moltke[/member] ,
Yes was aware of the tools mentioned there. And of course use them. I was more thinking of stuff that is not there. Example, WPS Office and Apache OpenOffice.
As said Libre office does not handle macros well, and so wanted to try some other office program.
Looked up the Apache open office , downloaded, it was a tar.gz created a folder to unzip, using the terminal commands (have no real clue there, copy n paste from sites, trying to learn) installed but it would not work.
Which is the question I was asking, if you step outside the norm, things can be done, sometimes it worked and others not.
Then because you are not experienced enough, (willing to learn and self teaching is a slow process, ) you muddle your way, about an hour or more trying to decipher how to undo the mess I made.
I eventually found a couple terminal commands that cleaned things up, or at least I think I did lol.
With a few hours all up, I am no better off, as Apache was not loaded, and I am still left without a program that can truly fullfil what MS OFFICE has.
I will persevere though, as windows was blown away, so I am going to have to get it sorted.
All in all, this install of 4.8 was the easiest and cleanest, am liking it a lot all the same.
Regards
H
Yes was aware of the tools mentioned there. And of course use them. I was more thinking of stuff that is not there. Example, WPS Office and Apache OpenOffice.
As said Libre office does not handle macros well, and so wanted to try some other office program.
Looked up the Apache open office , downloaded, it was a tar.gz created a folder to unzip, using the terminal commands (have no real clue there, copy n paste from sites, trying to learn) installed but it would not work.
Which is the question I was asking, if you step outside the norm, things can be done, sometimes it worked and others not.
Then because you are not experienced enough, (willing to learn and self teaching is a slow process, ) you muddle your way, about an hour or more trying to decipher how to undo the mess I made.
I eventually found a couple terminal commands that cleaned things up, or at least I think I did lol.
With a few hours all up, I am no better off, as Apache was not loaded, and I am still left without a program that can truly fullfil what MS OFFICE has.
I will persevere though, as windows was blown away, so I am going to have to get it sorted.
All in all, this install of 4.8 was the easiest and cleanest, am liking it a lot all the same.
Regards
H