Hi *,
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:13:00AM -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 16:27 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> >
> > I'm not certain what I'm meant to do, but I'm told that I should raise
> > this bug as a point over here:
> >
> > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37506
> >
> > I'm not sure what that means, but I'm bringing it to attention here.
> >
> > Essentially, RPM isn't the best way for OOo to be distributed. It's
> > actually quite sub-optimal.
> >
> > For some reason, the bug and the one it's marked as a duplicate of, is
> > marked resolved. It is not resolved.
> >
>
> See
> http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE_draft.pdf
> for a method of handling rpms while we wait for native-installers for
> all distros.
The rpm-install instractions are "rpm -Uhiv [...]"
but it should only be "-Uhv"
-U means upgrade
* if an older version exists, remove the old one and install the new
one instead
* if an older version doesn't exist, install anyway
-i means install
* if an older version exists, install along with the old one.
* if an older version doesn't exist, install anyway
-F would mean freshen
* only install when an old version already is installed (do an
update, i.e. remove the old version=
* if an older version doesn't exist, do nothing
And you should not use "relocate" to install to a different location,
use --prefix instead (rpm -Uhv --prefix /where/ooo/should/go *.rpm)
And probably you should add a note that the language packs need to be
installed with the same prefix as the other OOo-application packages.
Instead of the "rpm -qa | grep" you could use
"rpm -qa openofficeorg\*"
> rpm2cpio.pl may be had from http://www.iagora.com/~espel/rpm2cpio . What
> is nice about this tool is that it will even work under Windows.
But is seems somewhat broken as it seems it guesses the start of the
rpm-payload by zip-magic. This could fail in some cases.
Anyway: You can get a precompiled rpm-package (inlcuding rpm2cpio) from
ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/rpm-4.1.tar.gz
in case the perl script fails.
> Maybe we should just add it to the RPM tar.gz and update the README and
> include the SETUP_GUIDE.pdf as we did in 1.1.x.
ciao
Christian
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