Re: [Libreoffice] Tar / Zip wobbly

2010-10-28 Thread Constantin Makshin
On Wednesday 27 October 2010 22:30:22 Michael Meeks wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 13:10 -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote: To put a different spin on your surprise, I've wondered for awhile why it *isn't* installed in the default installation of more desktop-based nix distros. For me,

Re: [Libreoffice] Tar / Zip wobbly

2010-10-27 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
but I still stand by my comment what is zip doing on a nix system? Given that .odf files are .zip files, I would be surprised if you did not have a zipper/unzipper on your box. :) ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: [Libreoffice] Tar / Zip wobbly

2010-10-27 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 13:10 -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote: To put a different spin on your surprise, I've wondered for awhile why it *isn't* installed in the default installation of more desktop-based nix distros. For me, the nicest bit of zip is the un-compressed, find-able, directory

Re: [Libreoffice] Tar / Zip wobbly

2010-10-27 Thread Wols Lists
On 27/10/10 18:10, Kevin Hunter wrote: The file format was created circa 1990 (Phil Katz, maybe?), and, because of lawsuits against his company, intentionally released into the public domain. I've forgotten the exact story details, The wikipedia article is pretty brief, but it seems that

Re: [Libreoffice] Tar / Zip wobbly

2010-10-27 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 5:47pm -0400 Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Wols Lists wrote: On 27/10/10 18:10, Kevin Hunter wrote: The file format was created circa 1990 (Phil Katz, maybe?), and, because of lawsuits against his company, intentionally released into the public domain. I've forgotten the exact story details, The

[Libreoffice] Tar / Zip wobbly

2010-10-26 Thread Wols Lists
I'll investigate :-) but I've just tried a clean download and it's blown up on me... checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Archive/Zip.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2

Re: [Libreoffice] Tar / Zip wobbly

2010-10-26 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Wols Lists antli...@youngman.org.uk wrote: I'll investigate :-) but I've just tried a clean download and it's blown up on me... checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Archive/Zip.pm in [...] Bearing in mind I've got Tar.pm (and Extract.pm) and am

Re: [Libreoffice] Tar / Zip wobbly

2010-10-26 Thread Wols Lists
On 26/10/10 21:31, Christian Lohmaier wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Wols Lists antli...@youngman.org.uk wrote: I'll investigate :-) but I've just tried a clean download and it's blown up on me... checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Archive/Zip.pm in [...] Bearing

Re: [Libreoffice] Tar / Zip wobbly

2010-10-26 Thread Wols Lists
On 26/10/10 21:15, Wols Lists wrote: I'll investigate :-) but I've just tried a clean download and it's blown up on me... checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Archive/Zip.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2