Hi Matt,
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 03:08, Matt Price wrote:
There was a recent thread on dev@installation.openoffice.org:
From:
Clemmitt M. Sigler
<siglercm@bluehen.me.vt.edu>
Reply-To:
dev@installation.openoffice.org
To:
dev@installation.openoffice.org
Cc:
Joey Hess
<joey@kitenet.net>
Subject:
[installation-dev]
SOLVED: Debian
inst. problem for
OOo 1.9 native
.rpm pkgs.
Date:
Tue, 31 Aug 2004
14:34:22 -0400
(EDT)
Hi,
I fiddled around with postinst scripts from the native .rpms and
solved my problem :^) It was due to incorrect postinst scripts
generated by alien V8.46's conversion of the .rpms to .debs
(under Debian testing i386). This should get Debian users running.
Steps to get 1.9.m51 installed and running under Debian testing:
<snip>
From:
Clemmitt M. Sigler
<siglercm@bluehen.me.vt.edu>
Reply-To:
dev@installation.openoffice.org
To:
dev@installation.openoffice.org
Cc:
Joey Hess
<joey@kitenet.net>
Subject:
[installation-dev]
CORRECTION:
SOLVED: Debian
inst. problem for
OOo 1.9 native
.rpm pkgs.
Date:
Tue, 31 Aug 2004
19:11:27 -0400
(EDT)
Hi,
I'm sorry, I forgot one important step! To recap, to install the native
.rpms for OOo 1.9.m51 under Debian testing i386:
1.) Download native .rpms
2.) 'tar xzf' to extract RPMS/ subdir; cd RPMS/
3.) Run su to become root and run 'alien -k *.i586.rpm' to produce .deb
packages
4.) Install via 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite *.deb' (--force-overwrite
needed to correct spurious file conflicts in .debs produced by alien)
5.) Edit /opt/openoffice1.9.51/share/config/javavendors.xml to remove
references to IBM and Blackdown vendors
6.) As root, run by hand postinst commands to complete configuration:
# /opt/openoffice1.9.51/program/pkgchk --shared (you get 'pkgchk
done.')
# /opt/openoffice1.9.51/program/configimport --spool (you get success
msgs)
# /opt/openoffice1.9.51/program/update-mime-data "openoffice1.9"
7.) As root, run 'chmod 555 /opt/openoffice1.9.51/program/soffice'
8.) Exit su shell via 'exit'
9.) Run '/opt/openoffice1.9.51/program/soffice'
That should work :^)
Clemmitt Sigler
csigler@vt.edu
... or alternatively, have you got build instructions for these versions
(do the ones at http://openoffice.debian.net/build.html apply for the
680 versions?)?
No, unfortunately more stuff has been added that depends on the Sun JDK
and I am having trouble catching up and patching it all out again. I
will only be able to look at the packaging once I can get it all to
build without Java.
I see the source is available at
http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/source/ -- presumably that's
b/c y'all are working with them some?
Yes, I've been looking at in the little time I have. Caolan from Red
Hat has been helping with patching out the Java modules too.
Chris