On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: > > > I would like to see a blog entry tutorial demonstrating the > > installation of OpenOffice on the 4 major distros and also Win and > > OSX. > > > > This would be helpful to the community I think. > > > > The Install Guide covers installation on Linux -- but not from a distro > specific perspective. These instructions work very well for some distros > and not well for others. I can't elaborate much more on that statement. > > http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html > > When we released 3.4., we found some additional installation instructions > which are included in the wiki version of the Linux install page (which now > also needs some slight updating): > > > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Installation/How_do_I_install_OpenOffice.org_on_Linux%3F#Where_can_I_find_more_information_on_installing_OpenOffice_on_Linux.3F > > I would suggest if you find tutorials, or create tutorials yourself, for > any Linux distros, that you put links to them on the above wiki page. > Correct however in the mind of many people they would like to see a 4.0 instructions. Even if 99.9% de same. Should we just change it to the 4.0 release? Even then, the blog will highlight these links. I remember OSDir - OpenShot used to do this, screenshot guides of installation of major distros and apps like OpenOffice, however there is some questions on trying OpenOffice 4.0 while keeping LibO without risk. > > > > > > On 7/24/13, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chith...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Rory O'Farrell schrieb: > > >> Now that AOO 4.0 is successfully launched, perhaps the time has come > to > > >> try to get it into the Linux distros.At present if one selects > > OpenOffice > > >> in the distros I know, one gets LibreOffice. One should get a clear > > >> choice, not a default substitution. > > > > > > The problem is mostly the lack of volunteers which are willing to > > > package and maintain AOO among these distros' developers. > > > > > > Gentoo has a precompiled version of AOO packaged: > > > http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-office/openoffice-bin > > > > > > Besides that, there exist some user maintained packages for Ubuntu, > > > Arch, Slackware and other distros. > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Alexandro Colorado > > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > > http://www.openoffice.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > Success is falling nine times and getting up ten." > -- Jon Bon Jovi > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org
