Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed the beta 2.0 (1.9) OpenOffice.org? I > can't use the binary because it requires RPM now, which I don't use, and > the blfs patches were written for the stable 1.4 version so I'm gettingt > all kinds of build errors. I currently have 1.1 installed (from > binaries back before they switched to RPM-only) but I'd like to see a > bleeding-edge update so I can have better interoperability between my > Linux box and my Microsoft-enslaved friends at work. >
Yes, I'm running the binary now (1.9.104). I used the perl script rpm2cpio with cpio to get the rpm unpacked (the instructions are somewhere on the oo website - I'm afraid I didn't take notes, but it wasn't difficult). It seems very stable, and a big improvement on 1.1.4. My wife is using the Windows version, and this seems very good too. On thing I like a lot is that user-directory-without-a-leading-dot has dissappeared. My jdk is 1.5-03, and the DB application seems to work, although I have not yet given it any stretch tests. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
