Re: version of openoffice packages in testing/unstable

[jim <jim@amarooas.com.au>]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:01:09AM -0500, Steve Pacenka wrote:

Steve...thanks

> Going one step upstream, Jim Watson's .tar.bz2 multi-RPM packages are
> quite usable with Debian (at least as single-user installs).  These are
> available from Openoffice.org mirrors, in the contrib/linuxsparc
> directory.  Jim is up to 2.0.2.  You also need to find install_linux.sh
> for oo.o.  Maybe the one here will work:
> 
>   http://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/OpenOffice.org/developer/install_scripts/

This can be got from mirrors
my-mirror/pub/OpenOffice.org/developer/install_scripts

The script relocates the rpm installations where required, else they default into /opt

> 
> For future reference, Jim's port wiki page is:
> 
>   http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/GNULinuxSparcPorting
> 
> -- SP
> 

jim