Re: open office install fails
On Saturday 22 June 2013 07:16:48 you wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 10:34 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Maybe it was replaced in Debian, but Open Office is still very much
> > alive and well (and owned by ASF).
> >
> > I'm with Jeff - I prefer OpenOffice over LibreOffice.
>
> I prefer LibreOffice and follow David's advice.
> In any case, it was not clear to me he wanted OpenOffice instead of
> LibreOffice. I was thinking he had a Squeeze system installed with
> OpenOffice and just upgraded.
>
> For OpenOffice:
> As pointed out by Klaus, there is a package specifically for the
> gnome integration.
> You'll have to install it using the packages from the OpenOffice.org
> website [1]. It's a tar.gz archive file with several deb files, I
> haven't looked into the contents as I don't use it, but I imagine
> there is such a gnome integration package. At least there was when
> 3.3 came out, that was also the last time I installed OpenOffice from
> the website, before switching.
>
> I would also advice to make sure no OpenOffice or LibreOffice
> packages are installed from the Debian repositories when using the
> packages from their website. Just to be sure there aren't any
> conflicts.
>
> Regards,
> Steven
>
> [1] http://www.openoffice.org/download/
The AOO tar.gz file unpacks into ~/en-us, in the DEBS dir there is a
desktop-integration dir which contains a debian-menus deb package.
--
Peace,
Greg
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