Ubuntu – How to uninstall LibreOffice

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Which package should I remove to completely remove libreoffice? I have no need for office tools.

That's the one gripe I have with package managers like apt, there's no simple way to perform the essential task of removing unwanted software :S

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Type the following in terminal to remove libreoffice:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

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Ubuntu – How to downgrade from LibreOffice 4.0 to 3.6

For me this worked:

sudo apt-get install synaptic
sudo apt-get purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Then remove ppa for LibreOffice4 Add ppa for LibreOffice3.6

sudo apt-get update

via synaptic reinstall packages which make problems for me it was libexttextcat

Install LibreOffice via synaptic.

Ubuntu – How to send faxes directly from within LibreOffice

On further investigation, several hints led me to a proposed solution¹: Brother provides a fax modem driver (brfaxmodem-1.1.3-1.i386.deb) which you can download from their support site (link is for MFC9120CN). Their instructions then say:

have your printer connected via USB
install the driver: sudo dpkg -i brfaxmodem-1.1.3-1.i386.deb²
install the efax package: sudo apt-get install efax
open /etc/efax.rc using a text editor and change "DEV=ttyS1" into "DEV=modem"

Now you should be able adding a new printer: "AppSocket/HP JetDirect" with Hostname: localhost, Port: 9900, printer typ: Generic -> Raw Queue. Having that done, check that /etc/cups/printers.conf contains socket://localhost:9900. efax doesn't start automatically, so you'll have to do that manually when you need it (or create yourself a startup script to have Ubuntu taking care for that at boot).

If LibreOffice/OpenOffice doesn't detect this "fax printer" (which according to the change logs it should), Fax4CUPS might be needed:

… So the current LibreOffice version in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is obsolete. I've updated my LO to 5.0.1.2 and the fax integration has changed. spadmin no longer exists, and an external script, fax4CUPS is required.

Fax4CUPS is a CUPS backend for efax/hylafax/mgetty-fax. At the URL given you can find a .deb package you again need to install via sudo dpkg -i fax4cups_2.0-1_all.deb. Further instructions then can be found in its man page: man fax4CUPS.

¹_{not yet tested by me due to lack of time – but I don't want to a) lose the notes and b) keep them away from you. I will accept this answer once I've tested it successfully.}
²_{on a 64bit installation, you'll obviously need the 32bit support for that, unfortunately}

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