Hi,
I installed the dual boot on the VIM2 and as far as browsing and watching videofiles all is very good. Nice.
But the reason why I got VIM2 was to for work in libreoffice or openoffice in Ubuntu.
I ran
sudo apt-get update
and then tried to install libreoffice on Ubuntu 16.04 by adding the ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
This didn’t result in an installation at all. No error messages.
Even doing apt-get update, or running software updater, and the old fashioned reboot did not result into anything.
I then deleted the ppa and tried to install with downloading the deb file from libreoffice.
I got the LibreOffice_5.4.1_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz because I did not know what would be the correct one for VIM2. I understand we are running ARM, not x86, but somehow this has been simulated in the dual boot image… right? Well… anyway
I could not successfully install that either.
Is there any way I can install an office suite on ubuntu on the dual boot image on the VIM2?
Preferably libreoffice or openoffice.
So where you downloaded _x86_64 , that means x86 processor (like a Pentium chip or AMD) and 64 for 64.
VIM is an arm processor. So it will be armhf (arm 32 bit) or arm64 (which is also known as aarch64, this is the now preferred naming too)
Same goes for if you want to apt-get install it; regardless of which. the one you choose has to support aarch64 (or arm64).
edit
A (very) quick google suggests that libreoffice does have a build (openoffice too for that matter).
Dual booting is something different (its OS’s), it has nothing to do with arm vs. x86.
that was the first thing I tried, before I opened this thread
… and it did download, but gave errors on terminal and did not result in installed application.
Are you on the dual boot image, or the Ubuntu only image?
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Save it using [CTRL]-X
Once done;
sudo apt-get update
Then try install again.
freeasinbeer… I did not need to do anything with source file myself.
I ran again
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
and it installed fine now. ALL GOOD. Ta
EDIT:
ok, after doing quite a few things before I opened this topic (some of which I mentioned above, such as running software updater, installing and uninstalling ppas etc)
and now I ran again (as according to freeasinbeer should have worked from get go):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
and this time it found the appropriate file I think, it was 110MB to download and 428MB of space. Ran without errors and DONE
Thanks… it is unfortunate that I do not quite understand why it failed the first time, but it is working fine now. LibreOffice 5.1 is running smoothly.