oops, devs out of date? ;p

[laurentppol]

Sorry, can't find (using apt-cache search)

[seamonkey, thunderbird, firefox, openoffice] WFUP?

Ex I use OO 3.3 so I DONT want to switch to Libre Office, even they are OS Licence...

[Igor]

Which OS are you using? I can find any without a problem.

[laurentppol]

This image -rw-r--r-- 1 root    root    3109027840 09-15 05:48 Armbian_5.20_Orangepipcplus_Debian_jessie_3.4.112_desktop.img

+ apt-get update +upgrade.

 

Sorry I am total noob to apt-get system.

[Igor]

Well, we use stock Debian (or Ubuntu if you use our Ubuntu build) package repository and if you don't find some packages you need to add repository where those packages exits or download and install .deb file manually.

[laurentppol]

As I said, I am (almost, I know some OpenWrt config) total newbie to apt-* "world".

Could You point to some howto?

 

BTW, is there some (good) GUI to this?

to have "available" -> "install" listed by name / "flavour".

 

Shouldn't be included in release?

[Igor]

Our main objective is (was) to provide a CLI / server images. But we also provide a simple desktop. Our system is mostly used by people who are cool with "apt-get install" way of doing things. 

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150927/is-there-a-software-center-like-in-ubuntu-in-debian

 

[laurentppol]

But there is (a lot of) users from "RedHat world".

Could someone write a howto for us?

I mean for experienced Linux users, but not familiar with APT*

[zador.blood.stained]

Could someone write a howto for us?

Howto for what? For searching generic Debian/Ubuntu documentation? Or for reading apt-get man page?

Apt is not specific to Armbian, any documentation for corresponding Debian or ubuntu release or man pages can be used as documentation.

[laurentppol]

Let's say:

"apt-get HOWTO for yum/rpm users"

[Igor]

https://www.google.com/search?q=apt-get+HOWTO+for+yum%2Frpm+users

1-2 seconds and you find it.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux/RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAndFedora

[zador.blood.stained]

Let's say:

"apt-get HOWTO for yum/rpm users"

OK.

Type "man apt" in the terminal, read the documentation.

Alternative: Search for "apt HOWTO" for something like this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto

Alternative: Use aptitude - ncurses based GUI package manager, preinstalled in recent Armbian images

[laurentppol]

Look great for 1st time, will try this ,

You are great.

[laurentppol]

Got synaptic, finally some GUI to apt-get

 

But search for "openoffice" still failed, found 3 packages with "openoffice" in name, but it is not the suite itself.

[martinayotte]

Maybe you should look at LibreOffice

[laurentppol]

What I like in Linux is a "set of LEGOs", anyone builds its own.

I don't want to switch my Ofiice software simply because different distribution.

And for ME OO 3.3 id enough. And fast even on mC1400 + 2GB RAM

[tkaiser]

I don't want to switch my Ofiice software simply because different distribution.

 

So why not following the instructions the distribution of your choice provides: https://wiki.debian.org/OpenOffice

 

Regarding this stuff Armbian is more or less like the distro you chose (we currently support Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu Trusty, Debian Jessie and Ubuntu Xenial while fading out support for the former two). It's really just following the stuff you find on the net when googling for "$problem $distro"

[zador.blood.stained]

What I like in Linux is a "set of LEGOs", anyone builds its own.

I don't want to switch my Ofiice software simply because different distribution.

And for ME OO 3.3 id enough. And fast even on mC1400 + 2GB RAM

Then you are free to compile anything that you want. Current versions of Debian and Ubuntu use LibreOffice as main office software kit. And BTW OpenOffice development was discontinued 5 years ago and LibreOffice is an actively developing fork of OpenOffice.

[martinayotte]

Effectively :

Since Wheezy, LibreOffice replaced OpenOffice.

[laurentppol]

Then you are free to compile anything that you want. Current versions of Debian and Ubuntu use LibreOffice as main office software kit.

oopsoot@orangepipcplus:/var/lib# export LANGUAGE=C
root@orangepipcplus:/var/lib# aptitude install openoffice.org
No candidate version found for openoffice.org
No candidate version found for openoffice.org
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

Edited December 22, 2016 by zador.blood.stained
Fixed broken quote box

[laurentppol]

its "Debian depending" or world depending OO migrated to LO? Or It's just a fork?

 

Worse:

aptitude update;

aptitude install openoffice.org

 

got "nothing"

 

"root@orangepipcplus:/var/lib# export LANGUAGE=C
root@orangepipcplus:/var/lib# aptitude install openoffice.org
No candidate version found for openoffice.org
No candidate version found for openoffice.org
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used."

 

whats next?

 

Import change/compile programs on ARM>? howto?

[zador.blood.stained]

oopsoot@orangepipcplus:/var/lib# export LANGUAGE=C
root@orangepipcplus:/var/lib# aptitude install openoffice.org
No candidate version found for openoffice.org
No candidate version found for openoffice.org
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

➜  ~  % LANG=en_US apt-cache search '^libreoffice$'
libreoffice - office productivity suite (metapackage)
➜  ~  % LANG=en_US apt-cache search '^libreoffice-writer$'
libreoffice-writer - office productivity suite -- word processor

its "Debian depending" or world depending OO migrated to LO? Or It's just a fork?

As @martinayotte said, since Debian Wheezy (2 stable releases ago) LibreOffice replaced OpenOffice in the Debian repositories.

[martinayotte]

As Zador said, last OpenOffice release was 5 years ago, ALL distros shifted to LibreOffice since then ...

 

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org

 

EDIT : Here is a piece of the History :

 

 

TDF released the fork LibreOffice in January 2011,^[53] which most Linux distributions soon moved to.^{[54][55][56][57]} In April 2011, Oracle stopped development of OpenOffice.org^[11] and fired the remaining StarDivision development team.^[34][58] Its reasons for doing so were not disclosed; some speculate that it was due to the loss of mindshare with much of the community moving to LibreOffice^[59] while others suggest it was a commercial decision.^[34]

[laurentppol]

OK now I see, "1 image worth a 1000 words".

But OO is istill alive, they propose 4.1.3 for Linux(Fedora 32/64)/Win(32/64)/Debian32/64.

[martinayotte]

I would not say alive, but rather "artificial keep-alive"

Bullet links 55/56/57 clearly says that Debian/Ubuntu/OpenSuse thrown the towel about OO since 2012.