Hi *, On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:02:51PM -0400, 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.
You did not have a look at the script. The script converts the rpms to deb packages. > First, > using an RPM on Debian mises much of the point of using a Debian system, > by using a different package manager. See above. > Not to mention that a script > won't be as reliable as the .deb packages made by the Debian developers. But the point stated is that the debian developers don't provide vanilla OOo but a patched one. > >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. Sais who? Sun will surely continue building with JDK. > 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. That's not the point. The java-package fetches and installs Sun's JRE > 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. Just have a look at the script. It basically only converts the rpms to debs using alien and installs the debs. Since all packages are now relocateable and no package has to be registered (no package relies on scripts to be run) this works without problem. The only addition is a custom menu-integration package. I don't know why it takes a script to do this, but at least it is not a modified version of OOo. > And as I said earlier, all this, to get a more fragile product. Naa. ciao Christian -- NP: Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
