I've done essentially as you've said, and it seems to have worked (though, since I'd already installed the main OO distro using "sudo ..." -- hence files created as owned by root -- I figured it might be important to do likewise for the SDK, and did so -- else perhaps OO might have problems accessing certain dependencies, I thought).
I did need to then actually become root in order to navigate into the resultant directory, but, so far, I don't see that as a problem. I'm new to using OO in a *nix environment, and I've wanted to minimize the chance of permissions-issues, for the short term, even at the risk of some security-issues. The site in question is to host only a prototype of my current project; it's not to be a production environment (not in the short-term, at least). Anyway, meanwhile, I think it's peculiar this installer is in the form it's in: seemingly a script, yet seemingly, itself, binary. Perhaps there ought to be some documentation explaining that, since, it seems to me, it's fair to assume the download is a tarball of a deb-file (set of deb-files?) instead. Thanks. Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > > Hello Larry, > > On Friday 16 October 2009, 20:33, larrydlefever wrote: >> Here's the command I used to download the OO SDK: >> >> sudo axel >> http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.1.1/OOo-SDK_3.1.1_Li >> nuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.sh >> >> I presumed the result would be a tarball containing a deb file; or just >> directly a deb file. >> >> However, after having confirmed it is a binary file of some kind (by >> cat'ing it), I tried to untar it but tar said first that it's not >> gzipped, >> then that it's not a tar file. Then, dpkg said it's not a deb file. >> >> Is my use of axel the problem. Did it corrupt the download. Can't >> investigate further right now. Any feedback would be much appreciated. >> >> Thanks. > > for me, this works: download that file to a folder, and as a simple user, > with > no root privileges do the following: > > make that file executable > ]$ chmod +x OOo-SDK_3.1.1_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.sh > > execute the file > ]$ ./OOo-SDK_3.1.1_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.sh > > you will be prompted for a folder to extract the deb file, the default > just > worked fine: > > ]$ ./OOo-SDK_3.1.1_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.sh > > Select the directory in which to save the unpacked files. > [/var/tmp/unpack_openofficeorg] > > File is being checked for errors ... > Unpacking ... > All files have been successfully unpacked. > ]$ ls -l /var/tmp/unpack_openofficeorg/DEBS/ > total 8640 > -rw-r--r--. 1 ariel ariel 8840098 ago 19 08:44 ooobasis3.1- > sdk_3.1.1-19_amd64.deb > > > Now cd to the folder where the file was unpacked, and > > ]$ sudo dpkg -i ooobasis3.1-sdk_3.1.1-19_amd64.deb > > will install the SDK. > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/trouble-installing-OO-SDK-on-Ubuntu-%28shell-script-%29-tp25933785p25934821.html Sent from the openoffice - dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
