Daniel Carrera wrote:
John McCreesh wrote:
Seb Payne has posted a script to install the 'official' OOo 2.0 binaries
(.rpms) under Ubuntu (Debian) at
http://www.evolutioncolt.com/mainweb/?q=node/11.
Good lord, no. Debian-based systems should use .deb packages. First,
using an RPM on Debian mises much of the point of using a Debian system,
by using a different package manager. You lose the benefit of the apt
database, and clean uninstalls and updates. Not to mention that a script
won't be as reliable as the .deb packages made by the Debian developers.
Daniel, this is a good point but hopefully the user should be aware of
this...then again, maybe not! I don't know anything AT ALL about Ubuntu
(or Debian) however.
The advantage of using this approach rather than wait for .debs is that
you know you are getting the 'official' product, rather than one that
has (e.g.) had Java support removed on philosophical grounds.
Have you been follwing the Java issue? Java components in OOo will be
compiled with GCJ.
oh boy! and what will that mean long term I wonder...
And what do you mean by removing Java? I have OOo
1.9.106 in front of me, installed from the .debs, and I see the Java
functionality right there.
On the subject of "official", what's official about this script? Has it
been approved by the installation team? The .debs are far more official,
as they are actually made by OOo developers in the installation team.
I don't think any of the "other" categories have this blessing...the
heading is ....
Packages for Linux Distributions (Not compiled by OpenOffice.org staff)
Hence one assumes a certain "install at your own risk/lack of OOo
support" warning.
Someone else's call on placing this link, I'm afraid. My network
situation for doing this is caput at the moment.
And as I said earlier, all this, to get a more fragile product.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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