On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 18:41 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 03:26 +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > Hi *, > > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:02:04PM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > [snip] > > > What I meant was, could you please point me to this script? Not that > > > it's relevant to .deb packages. I'm just curious. > > > > It was in the first mail (I deleted it already) but thanks to browser > > history: > > http://www.evolutioncolt.com/mainweb/?q=node/11 > > > > or direct links: > > http://www.evolutioncolt.com/downloads/evolutioncolt_oo2_java.sh > > http://www.evolutioncolt.com/downloads/evolutioncolt_oo2_nonjava.sh > > > > I don't like these scripts since they hardcode the version, don't > > support offline-installation and they could have probably used the > > freedesktop-menus rpm as base for the menus. > > Probably it misses a call to update-desktop-database for the > > menu-entries as well. > > Yes, they aren't the finest examples of bash scripting, but IMHO they > are an improvement on typing it all in by hand, a process we already > document on http://download.openoffice.org/680/ and in > http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/index.html. > > Hard-coding the version isn't smart, but at least you known which > version of the code the author of the script has used for testing :-) > > Judging by the comments on the Ubuntu forums, these scripts are meeting > a need. Incidentally, the user reaction there to the new version is also > very positive. >
John et al, Please take a look at http://tinyurl.com/8telc (the setup guide source) and add an Ubuntu section or, even simpler, add the text to http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37513 I have been attempting to get the doc ready but have had great difficulty obtaining info on OSes I do not have. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
