On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 22:36 +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > 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
Thanks for the update. I will integrate it into the setup guide. THere are many sections in this document that need updating. Particularly for Debian and MacOS X. Please add your instructions to http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37513 otherwise there will be no setup guide. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
