How to safely update open office to 2.0+?

[KevinO]

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vodhner at cox.net wrote:
> VO:  EEK!  That's ugly.  This is the kind of  "all ya gotta do is..."  that makes Linux a strictly-for-geeks proposition.  I've been hacking unix / linux for almost 20 years but it still sounds ugly to me.
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> I simply followed point and click procedures on Windows and upgraded to the new OOo.  Worked fine.  Same with the Gimp, for example.
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> Can't testify re Linux, because my move to OOo 2.0 came along with installation of a totally new Ubuntu instance.  I never had any elaborate preferences or anything set up in OOo so there was no question of "safe", nothing to lose in installing a new version.  So part of my "problem" is that I can't see the problem about "how to safely update".
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What you don't understand is that he is running an outdated and unsupported
version of Mandrake, so there aren't any pre-made packages for his distribution
containing the latest version of OO.

Also, he was asking how to 'safely' upgrade. Running Windows, and using a
point-and-click interface to install software, really isn't very 'safe'.

Ugly is trying to deal with the lack of line-wrap in your 'mail client'.

Cheers,
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KevinO
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