Having used Open Office 1.9.x on the XP side of my box, I decided to install it on the CentOS side. (The default OO was 1.1.2, for heaven's sake!) I downloaded the Linux 386 version from the OO site. I immediately ran into problems-- 1) The installation instructions were for OO 1.x. 2) The download appears to be source RPMs. Although I've used UNIX & Linux for over 15 years, there are still some empty spots in my toolbox--and dealing with RPMs in one of them. (YUM is SO much nicer!) Has anyone added OO1.9.113 to CentOS? Where can I find info on what I need to do to get OO1.9.x added to my CentOS installation? Any help will be much appreciated! -mj-
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:36 -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote:> I immediately ran into problems-- > 1) The installation instructions were for OO 1.x. > 2) The download appears to be source RPMs.I downloaded the version 1.9.104 (May 20th) binary RPMs for i386. Build system on the RPMs is reported as up-smb2.germany.sun.com. Now I'm runing these binaries on Fedora Core 3 x86-64 no less. It's a stock x86-64 install, except I do manually swap out Firefox x86-64 for Firefox i386 (so all my i386 plug-ins work). So I'd say if a "plain Jane" Fedora Core 3 install (with limited Fedora Extras / RPM.Livna.ORG packages) work, I don't see why it won't on CentOS 4.> Has anyone added OO1.9.113 to CentOS?I would assume anything that runs on Fedora Core 3 would run on CentOS 4 without issue. CentOS 3 might be an issue though. As far as the source RPMs, maybe those are included because you need to build it from source. It could be a Java Runtime Engine (JRE) requirement that might be taken out of newer builds in favor of a GPL Java stack like GCJ. I'm running Sun JRE 1.5.0_02 (i586 I believe) on my x86-64 system. But the RPMs didn't list them as a dependency. In fact, I want to say it was actually installed with the RPMs. Now thinking back, it might have installed Java with the RPMs in a single ".sh" file download and subsequent run. That might explain it the best, why I had no problems. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- It is mathematically impossible for someone who makes more than you to be anything but richer than you. Any tax rate that penalizes them will also penalize you similarly (to those below you, and then below them). Linear algebra, let alone differential calculus or even ele- mentary concepts of limits, is mutually exclusive with US journalism. So forget even attempting to explain how tax cuts work. ;->
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:36 -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote:> Having used Open Office 1.9.x on the XP side of my box, I decided to > install it on the CentOS side. (The default OO was 1.1.2, for heaven's > sake!) I downloaded the Linux 386 version from the OO site. > > I immediately ran into problems-- > 1) The installation instructions were for OO 1.x. > 2) The download appears to be source RPMs. > > Although I've used UNIX & Linux for over 15 years, there are still some > empty spots in my toolbox--and dealing with RPMs in one of them. (YUM is > SO much nicer!)Yup, but "rpmbuild --rebuild <path_to_src.rpm>" isn't too bad unless you get into dependency hell. I usually put the RPMS in a local repo and use yum to install.> Has anyone added OO1.9.113 to CentOS?Well, I see FC4 updates is at openoffice.org-1.9.112-1.1.0.fc4.src.rpm Rawhide/development has openoffice.org-1.9.116-3.2.0.fc5.src.rpm Will give a CentOS 4 build of .112 a shot if the DL ever finishes.> Where can I find info on what I need to do to get OO1.9.x added to my > CentOS installation?Any luck with smart? Phil
Le Mercredi 13 Juillet 2005 07:36, Mark Jarvis a ?crit?:> Having used Open Office 1.9.x on the XP side of my box, I decided to > install it on the CentOS side. (The default OO was 1.1.2, for heaven's > sake!) I downloaded the Linux 386 version from the OO site. > > I immediately ran into problems-- > 1) The installation instructions were for OO 1.x. > 2) The download appears to be source RPMs. > > Although I've used UNIX & Linux for over 15 years, there are still some > empty spots in my toolbox--and dealing with RPMs in one of them. (YUM is > SO much nicer!) > > Has anyone added OO1.9.113 to CentOS?I installed 00o 1.9.113 a few days ago on my CentOS 4.1 box without problem, though I uninstalled the 1.1.x version beforehand. I had Sun j2sdk 1.4.2_08 installed too.> Where can I find info on what I need to do to get OO1.9.x added to my > CentOS installation?http://download.openoffice.org/2.0beta/instructions.html#linux You just need unpacking the archive, then a "rpm -Uivh *.rpm" in the directory containing all rpm files should do. I didn't try the desktop integration, though.