Re: Openoffice 1.9.79 (2.0 beta rc) for Debian
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 19:30, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> En/La Bob Alexander ha escrit, a 08/03/05 18:48:
> | Dear friends,
> | would urgently need a quick and clean way of installing OO 2.0 beta
> | along the "official" 1.1.3 debian packages on my Sid system
> |
> | Found some nice 1.9.73 debs but have a data corruption problem with
> | those !!!
> |
> | Any pointers please ?
> |
> | Like the 1.9.73, I'd love to have them installed in the /opt (which I
> | symlink to /usr/local( tree.
> |
> | TIA,
> | Bob
>
> Hi Bob,
> [note that the rpm's come in a tarball.]
> I have Openoffice 1.9.79 running smoothly on Sarge: 2.6.8-2-386. I
> followed the instructions on the openoffice site. I can't find the exact
> URL but here are the instructions I used (n.b. some of the last steps
> seem to be outdated. They don't have any effect on the performance of OO).
> 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'
> Enjoy it. It's a great release.
> Jonathan
Jonathan,
I used to do it this way too.
This is not necessary anymore, just use the debs produced by Pavel in the
directory I mentioned in my earlier post. The debs can be installed with
dpkg --install *.deb
so you do not need the force anymore.
The debs co-exist with an official debian install of OO stable.
Furthermore you can use the status quo which is already two builds beyond
the beta release (m84)
good luck!
John
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