{"id":703,"date":"2006-05-18T23:26:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/upgrade-to-openofficeorg-202-and-stop-murderous-urges\/"},"modified":"2006-05-18T23:26:21","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T13:26:21","slug":"upgrade-to-openofficeorg-202-and-stop-murderous-urges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/upgrade-to-openofficeorg-202-and-stop-murderous-urges\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 and stop murderous urges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no great secret that I think the stability of OpenOffice.org2 Impress in what&#8217;s shipped in Ubuntu Breezy leaves a lot to be desired. By &#8216;a lot&#8217; I mean copy and pasting is unreliably and the Slide Sorter just stopped working for me without crashes (in at least one document).<\/p>\n<p>However, I took the plunge and did something I usually don&#8217;t like doing &#8211; installing non-official debs.<\/p>\n<p>deb http:\/\/people.ubuntu.com\/~doko\/ubuntu\/ breezy-updates\/<br \/>\ndeb-src http:\/\/people.ubuntu.com\/~doko\/ubuntu\/ breezy-updates\/<br \/>\nI am now a much happy camper.<\/p>\n<p>Saving is still amazingly slow, but the lack of crashes has made my week.<\/p>\n<p>doko is my hero for the week. A Tip Of The Hat for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no great secret that I think the stability of OpenOffice.org2 Impress in what&#8217;s shipped in Ubuntu Breezy leaves a lot to be desired. By &#8216;a lot&#8217; I mean copy and pasting is unreliably and the Slide Sorter just stopped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/upgrade-to-openofficeorg-202-and-stop-murderous-urges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-bl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":631,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/crash-halfway-through-upgrading-ubuntu-breezy-to-dapper\/","url_meta":{"origin":703,"position":0},"title":"crash halfway through upgrading Ubuntu breezy to dapper","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-03-31","format":false,"excerpt":"see BUG#37430 for some details. Also see BUG#37435 for why it gets really painful later on. Basically, if your machine crashes around the time of the dist-upgrade, you're totally screwed. mkfs and re-install. I'd hate to have not made \/home a different partition from \/. I currently don't have much\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;grumble&quot;","block_context":{"text":"grumble","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/grumble\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":472,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/14\/tomboy\/","url_meta":{"origin":703,"position":1},"title":"tomboy","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-09-14","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I've just upgraded to Ubuntu Breezy (the next release of Ubuntu, currently a preview release) I've installed tomboy. It's like a Wiki for your desktop. Awesome. Seems to be pretty useful. Even more useful than the stickynotes applet. In fact, i think I'll remove sticky notes. 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