The Eclipse plugin works only with Official OOo installations.
The Ubuntu, Debian, and may be other distributions packagings
aren't supported. You can find correct debs on Pavel FTP:
http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org
For development work I make .tgz-packages from the official rpms
with alien (alien -t bla.rpm). Like this you can install different
versions in parallel and you don't need root access.
I've also tried to install OOo from the deb packages of this file :
http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/2.0.4/OOo_OOD680_m5_LinuxIntel_install_cs_deb.tar.gz
Those are not the .tgzs I meant.
But I don't manage to install it because of conflicts with my
installed version.
I've also tried to use the official version available on the official
website http://www.openoffice.org, but I can't install it for the
same reason.
Step by step for OOo2.0.4 (similar for the SDK):
Download and unpack (tar xzf)
OOo_2.0.4_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz from the openoffice.org site.
In the OOD680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9073/RPMS directory (who has put
this path name in a stable release?!?) you'll find the rpms. Convert
them all to .tgz with the "alien -t" command.
Create a new directory where you want OOo installed. Run
tar xzf ../path/to/whatever.tgz
in the destination directory for every .tgz. You'll get a new
subdirectory à la opt/openoffice.org/. You can start OOo with
path/to/installation/opt/openoffice.org/soffice .
This naturally won't automatically assign the OOo MIME-types to your new
installation or magically integrate it into your desktop environment.
But it's highly useful for installing different OOo versions at the same
time. Only caveat might be user preferences which are stored under
~/.openoffice.org2. You might want to back them up if you often go back
to an older or possibly incompatible version.
I really wish OOo would come in tarballs like this. It makes live on
various distributions much easier than the RPMs.
Good luck
Arthur
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