Hi
In the past years, I have installed < ffmulticonverter in other distros many times
Never have I seen libre-office installed with it.
But yesterday I installed ffmulticonverter .....et voila...I got libre-office too, totally free of charge.
Thanks
Opinion and/or explanation welcome
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It is in << my >> repo.
Yesterday I installed for first time Pep11-(May ISO )
It's in there
Actually, I was very surprised, as I never have seen ffmulticonverter in it.
I suppose I can remove the menu entries......but, I feel I had to mention it.
btw : It's NOT the end of my world
Can remove the menu-entries.....I suppose
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What commands or process did you use to install ffmulticonverter ?
1st thing...
Following a fresh install, the first thing for me would not be a visit to synaptic.
We use our computers differently. There are several different ways to install software.
For me to know which method you used requires that I would ask you this.
During the installation process, LibreOffice is available as an installable package .
Not only is LibreOffice available, as a whole package, the individual components are as well and all of the language packs plus some add-ons, such as hunspell with the language packs for spell checking and dictionaries for various languages.
If you don't remember how you installed LibreOffice or don't know how it got there,
it might have been selected and forgotten while exploring the installer.
Yes, it is your system.
If deleting the menu entries suites you better than removing the package or components
It is Linux.
It is customizable.
Make it yours.
Thanks
KsWoodsMan
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ffmulticonverter exists in the deb-multimedia repository but as it supports the conversion of office files it depends on some libreoffice components so after installing it you had the libreoffice suite as a bonus. to minimize the number of libreoffice packages you install use the --no-install-recommends option
Hi
I think we have a problem with the language.
I did the fresh install for one reason only and that is to see if ffmulticonverter was in the repos, as you claimed it was not.
I wanted to make sure that nothing << abnormal >> had happened.
If ffmulticonverter was not in the repos straight after install, that would mean that something on this site was wrong.
And for your information , my way of installing is: burn iso to usb with command provided in wiki, then install, then update via <peppermint update=""> (red icon in taskbar) , then carry on installing my programs --> o n e at the time , so that I can see them afterwards in synaptic-file-history "
xxxx If you don't remember how you installed LibreOffice or don't know how it got there,
it might have been selected and forgotten while exploring the installer
Sorry, the answer is no I made no mistake
IF you want........ I can send you a copy of this application's install from synaptic</peppermint>
Manuel Rosa is quite correct.
While looking for the ffmultimedia package , I hadn't considered it might be in the the recently added 3rd party multimedia repository.
Since his explanation also included that ffmulticonverter also converts some LibreOffice files it has dependencies to some of the base packages in LibreOffice.
The rest of LibreOffice was installed as recommended software.
After finally getting back, from you, how it was installed, This seems to be fully cleared up.
Sending any additional information is unnecessary .
Thanks,
KsWoodsMan
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The rest of LibreOffice was installed as recommended software.
I vehemently disagree with this approach.
If it's recommended software, then also recommend all the other ones too.
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I agree.
And to make it more how you want it to be , the command below will change the default behaviour from
Installing recommended software as a dependency
to
Only installing the requested package and the actual dependencies for that package.
apt-config dump | grep -we Recommends -e Suggests | sed s/1/0/ | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/999no-recommends
Thanks
KsWoodsMan
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Hi
In the past years, I have installed < ffmulticonverter in other distros many times
Never have I seen libre-office installed with it.
But yesterday I installed ffmulticonverter .....et voila...I got libre-office too, totally free of charge.
Thanks
Opinion and/or explanation welcome
As it doesn't seem to be in the Debian repositories ....
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=ffmulticonverter
What commands or process did you use to install ffmulticonverter ?
Thanks
KsWoodsMan
Last edit: KsWoodsMan 2022-06-11
It is in << my >> repo.
Yesterday I installed for first time Pep11-(May ISO )
It's in there
Actually, I was very surprised, as I never have seen ffmulticonverter in it.
I suppose I can remove the menu entries......but, I feel I had to mention it.
btw : It's NOT the end of my world
Can remove the menu-entries.....I suppose
Yup, did a brand new install on a spare partition.
1st thing...open synaptic -- ffmulticonverter......it's there.
Following a fresh install, the first thing for me would not be a visit to synaptic.
We use our computers differently. There are several different ways to install software.
For me to know which method you used requires that I would ask you this.
During the installation process, LibreOffice is available as an installable package .
Not only is LibreOffice available, as a whole package, the individual components are as well and all of the language packs plus some add-ons, such as hunspell with the language packs for spell checking and dictionaries for various languages.
If you don't remember how you installed LibreOffice or don't know how it got there,
it might have been selected and forgotten while exploring the installer.
Yes, it is your system.
If deleting the menu entries suites you better than removing the package or components
It is Linux.
It is customizable.
Make it yours.
Thanks
KsWoodsMan
ffmulticonverter exists in the deb-multimedia repository but as it supports the conversion of office files it depends on some libreoffice components so after installing it you had the libreoffice suite as a bonus. to minimize the number of libreoffice packages you install use the --no-install-recommends option
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends ffmulticonverter
thank you and be well
Hi
I think we have a problem with the language.
I did the fresh install for one reason only and that is to see if ffmulticonverter was in the repos, as you claimed it was not.
I wanted to make sure that nothing << abnormal >> had happened.
If ffmulticonverter was not in the repos straight after install, that would mean that something on this site was wrong.
And for your information , my way of installing is: burn iso to usb with command provided in wiki, then install, then update via <peppermint update=""> (red icon in taskbar) , then carry on installing my programs --> o n e at the time , so that I can see them afterwards in synaptic-file-history "
xxxx If you don't remember how you installed LibreOffice or don't know how it got there,
it might have been selected and forgotten while exploring the installer
Sorry, the answer is no I made no mistake
IF you want........ I can send you a copy of this application's install from synaptic</peppermint>
Last edit: OldTon 2022-06-12
Sorry for the funny looks, but I can't get it right.
Next time better
Manuel Rosa is quite correct.
While looking for the ffmultimedia package , I hadn't considered it might be in the the recently added 3rd party multimedia repository.
Since his explanation also included that ffmulticonverter also converts some LibreOffice files it has dependencies to some of the base packages in LibreOffice.
The rest of LibreOffice was installed as recommended software.
After finally getting back, from you, how it was installed, This seems to be fully cleared up.
Sending any additional information is unnecessary .
Thanks,
KsWoodsMan
The rest of LibreOffice was installed as recommended software.
I vehemently disagree with this approach.
If it's recommended software, then also recommend all the other ones too.
I agree.
And to make it more how you want it to be , the command below will change the default behaviour from
Installing recommended software as a dependency
to
Only installing the requested package and the actual dependencies for that package.
apt-config dump | grep -we Recommends -e Suggests | sed s/1/0/ | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/999no-recommendsThanks
KsWoodsMan
Yeepers, that's quick. Don't you sleep ?
I will try that today.
btw, the unwanted entries also can be removed by right-click on unwanted name, then click hide applications
Thanks
See you
I see that the latest version only installs 1 entry to the menu, instead of 6.
Much better
PepDev64
18Aug22
:-)
Last edit: OldTon 2022-08-18
Oldton, You are Welcome.
We hoped anyone that noticed would deem this as a good change.
KsW