On 04/16/2008 10:30 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hi NoOp, > > NoOp escribió: >> I have OOo 2.3.1 installed and I want to keep a working version of 2.3.1 >> but also install the latest 2.4.x. The instructions on >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel only >> provide information for RPM and Windows. How do I do the same with .deb >> files? > > it seems you didn't read very well that wiki page (or didn't pay much > attention): on the first paragraph it said (past, as now I've changed > it) "Notice that we use an RPM version, but as we are extracting the > files, it works also for "installing" in Debian based distributions." > > The method worked perfectly on Debian, Ubuntu, and other distros that > use DEB packages instead of RPM: the package format does not matter > because it's not beeing installed, but extracted, you only needed to > install rpm2cio.
Actually, the standard rpm package includes rpm2cio: /usr/bin/rpm2cpio So, my recommendation for the debian user, if they want to go the rpm route would be to install rpm and cio: sudo apt-get install rpm cpio > > Any way now I added explanations for RPM and DEB packages, both for 2.* > versions and 3-layer-versions. Thank you! :-) The dpkg-deb instruction is the one I wasn't aware of. For Michele & others (like me :-), I found this helpful wiki page today: <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux/%20RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAndFedora> Extract files in a package pm2cpio package.rpm | cpio -vid vs dpkg-deb --extract package.deb dir-to-extract-to > >> 3) a wiki enabled person can add the above (or >> modified) to the >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel so >> that .deb users can also know how to install/run parallel versions of OOo. > > deb user could already do that! (I'm in fact also a deb user ;-) ) > Any way, feel free to add/change anything you want in that wiki page. > If you don't have an account, is very simple to get one (IIRC click the > link "Log in / create account" at the top-right corner of every wiki page). > And if you don't have wiki skills, OOo Writer can export to Wiki format. I think I'd rather leave that up to folks like yourself :-) Thanks again. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
