On 02/08/2013 12:11 AM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 07 February 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
I mean even if it isn't in the repos.....couldn't one just go to the
actual LibreOffice web-site and download it for themselves? Or SHOULD
I wait for it to be added to a repo? I've always wondered about
this....
You can, but...
Unless their download is a YUM repo, so that future updates will be
pulled in with a general "yum update," you're going to have to do manual
updates for every program that you manually downloaded. This turns the
convenient upgrading process that Fedora uses into the mess that Windows
is. You can also miss out on updates, on the Fedora repo version, that
contains fixes pertaining to Fedora, that probably aren't put into the
program updates from the external source.
Unless their download is designed for the release of Fedora that you're
using, there's a risk that it's not compatible, or that you'll have
"fun" sorting out extra file dependencies to get it to run.
Depending on the source of the program you're installing externally, it
could be dangerous (accidentally or deliberately). It's less likely to
have had the vetting that programs submitted to the Fedora repos have.
Any problems that you have with externally sourced programs will need
resolving with that external source. You're less likely to find help on
this list about it.
Those are just a few of the gotchas that I can think of, off the top of
my head.
Perhaps you should wait for the next rev of Apache OpenOffice.
I understand it will contain some or all of the user-friendly
interface of Symphony, another of the clone-cousins. IBM
gave Symphony to Apache last year some time.) You'll
most likely have to download it and install it yourself from
an rpm or dev archive, since most of the devs of the Linux
distros hate it. But if you have compared the user interface of
Symphony with LO or the present day OO, you'd know why I
make this suggestion.
--doug
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