OpenLP is Officially part of Ubuntu 12.10!

Submitted by raoul on Wed, 2012-05-23 17:31
Ubuntu Linux

This week is only halfway through, and it has an exciting few days! First we found out that OpenLP has made it into Debian, and now I can proudly announce that OpenLP is part of Ubuntu as well (and Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu by extension)!

OpenLP is in the "main" repository for Ubuntu 12.10, which means that when you install Ubuntu, you can immediately install OpenLP too. No more PPAs or extra repositories to enable.

We have also been able to get OpenLP "backported" into Ubuntu 12.04! This means that once you have enabled the "backports" repository (in Software Sources), you can also download and install OpenLP in Precise Pangolin.

Don't forget that you can find OpenLP in openSUSE and Fedora too.

Comments

Submitted by Dave42W on Wed, 2012-05-23 23:44

This is great news

At the moment I have OpenLP installed in 12.04 via the PPA. How do I switch to the backports version? Do I need to uninstall first?

Thanks

Dave

 

 

Submitted by mmj on Thu, 2012-05-24 15:14
In case you're using Precise you have to make sure, that the backports repository is added and then just remove the PPA. In case you're already using Quantal just remove the PPA. All new version will be pulled from the new source. If you want to make sure, that you use the Ubuntu build, it is simplest to remove the package and add it again. This should make no change, as both packages are build from the same source version.

Submitted by Dave42W on Sat, 2012-05-26 09:46

Thanks, it worked.