Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Post date: Apr 27, 2014 3:45:52 PM

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS was released in April, 2014. The LTS designation stands for "Long Term Support" - meaning that security and performance updates will be available for five years. Ubuntu 14.04 uses version 4.2.3.3 of LibreOffice. Read Text Extension 0.8.12 works well with this version, but there are a few issues to be aware of.

    • If you are upgrading Ubuntu 14.04 from Ubuntu 12.04, settings and extensions may not transfer. You may need to download the extensions again. This is a good opportunity to update extensions to their newest versions. Some older extensions may not be compatible with the newest version of LibreOffice. Check with the publisher of an extension if you have problems.

    • Ubuntu 14.04 does not include either espeak or svox pico speech by default. If you want to user read text extension for speech synthesis, you should install them using sudo apt-get install espeak libttspico0 libttspico-utils libttspico-data When you have installed espeak, you can test the functionality with espeak "hello world"

    • Bonus! It's easy to connect an Apple computer, phone or tablet to the printer connected to your Ubuntu computer. Install Avahi using - sudo apt-get install avahi-discover avahi-utils python-avahi avahi-daemon Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:631/admin. Enable 'Share printers connected to this system' using the advanced printer server settings.

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