Install projectlibre in 14.04

Solution 1:

Let's have a look at that for you. As far as I can tell, there is no PPA or automated way to do this. Should someone see a way that I'm missing, please edit this answer and fix it. That said, this means that you will have to install it manually.

1) To start, open your software updater and verify that you're up to date.

2)Then go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectlibre/files/ProjectLibre/ and select the newest version(1.5.9 when this post was written), then download the file that ends in .deb.

3) Now, open your file manager and navigate to your Downloads folder. You should see the .deb file right there, named something like projectlibre_1.5.9-1.deb. Double click on it.

4) The Software Center will open and remind you that you had better trust this software. Click the install button on the right.

5) This should pull in the dependencies, or at least inform you as to what those are during the install.

6) Now your new software is installed and ready for use.

Solution 2:

By default the Linux download is an RPM, which is a type of file to package software different from what is used by Ubuntu, as Ubuntu uses .deb files - or Debian packages. You can either convert the RPM to a Debian package, or go into the download section of the ProjectLibre site and download the Debian package directly, if available.

First try to download the Debian package directly and install it:

• Go to the download section of the ProjectLibre site and click on the directory with the latest version.
• See if there's a .deb file.
• If there is, click on it to download. The currently latest version is 1.6.1 and for this version, this is the Debian package file: projectlibre_1.6.1-1.deb. After downloading, just click on it to install.

If you cannot find a Debian package for the version you want to install:

• Just hit the download button on the ProjectLibre site. This downloads the RPM file for the latest version.

• Now install alien to convert the RPM and install as shown on the ProjectLibre blog (Thank You mytrant):

  sudo apt-get install alien
  sudo alien -ic package_file.rpm
  

Solution 3:

Seems the .deb package is of poor quality, wrong usernames for example.

I would recommend getting the pre-build tar.gz and unpacking that.

1. Fetch the latest tar.gz projectlibre-1.6.2.tar.gz - This might be outdated so check sourceforge for newer versions if needed
2. Open with file-roller and unpack to desired install directory. Personally I pick /opt but you need root privileges for that.
3. Start the projectlibre.sh script, either from terminal or follow this question. How do I run executable scripts from nautilus