On 7/8/07, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a system based on the 6.2 book. I have been very happy with the BLFS > additions so far, but now I want to install OpenOffice, and I am very > intimidated by the 129 SBU build time, I am willing to "cheat" and do an > install similar to what I did on my Windows system: big download but short > install. All of the no compilation Linux installs I have seen seem to be > rpm-based package installs. Is there any way I can install OpenOffice on my > BLFS system without the 129 SBU build process?
Yeah. I'm also too timid to dive into that monster. At the very minimum, you need one of the scripts to unpack the rpms and cpio to actually unpack the archives. The simplest you can get from the BLFS book, rpm2targz. See the bottom of this page: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/introduction/beyond.html Then, you can basically start unpacking the rpms into /opt/openoffice or whatever. That should get things basically working. You can hack around if you want real nice gnome integration (menus, icons, etc.). You can try to make sense of what I do: http://gitweb.dwcab.com/?p=gado.git;a=blob;f=spec/OpenOffice.org-bin.spec;hb=HEAD -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
