On 10 Jul, Andrew Benton wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the beta releases of openoffice 2.0 don't have an installer but lots of >> rpm-files. >> Since LinuxFromScratch is not based upon an rpm database, what's the >> easiest way to install this release? >> > > I think the easiest way to install it is to install cpio-2.6 (it's in BLFS) > and then use the rpm2cpio perl script http://www.iagora.com/~espel/rpm2cpio > to extract all the individual rpm's like so > > rpm2cpio openofficeorg-$PACKAGE.rpm | cpio -idv > > Then copy the opt/openoffice.org folder somewhere convenient and make a > symbolic link from /usr/bin pointing at openoffice.org/program/soffice
Thanks! There are quite a lot rpm files and rpm file may contain install scripts. What about these? Helmut -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
