-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear "distributors",
as has also been mentioned in another posting: Please, insert an INSTALL file in the top directory at least of the tar.gz RPM distribution for Linux. It is what command line users simply expect. I have been working with all OpenOffice releases (and candidates) at least since 1.0, but never installation was harder than now. For me it was NOT obvious that I have to read the SETUP_GUIDE (since I know how to setup OO :-). It should have been named INSTALL_GUIDE. Before all: For a newbie it is NOT clear what she shall do after installation! You find "rpm -Uhiv *.rpm" and nothing else after the first search how to install OO ... You can well insert a link to the setup guide in this file but it should contain some simple information necessary for straightfor- ward installation. Proposal (my own comment are marked with [XXX...]): - ------------------------------------------------------------ This file describes the simplest case for OpenOffice2.0 installation. For more information, see .../SETUP_GUIDE.pdf [XXX or include it in the distribution; by the way, I think that it can be made much smaller, there are empty pages, and the PDF looks quite large]. After unpacking the archive (what you have just done), execute the following commands as root: cd RPMS rpm -Uhiv *.rpm This will install the complete application. After this, you can do the following: cd desktop-integration rpm -i *debian* if you use a desktop under Debian - Suse Linux users have to type "rpm -i *suse*" and so on. Look whether your system is contained there [XXX explain shortly what "freedesktop-menus" means - I don't know it exactly]. Then you can call OpenOffice2.0 with the command "soffice" or "soffice _document_name", or of course by clicking on an icon. If your system is not contained there, you may discard the rpm files in desktop-integration/ and call OpenOffice2.0 with /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice [_document_name] (write a one-line shell script for this purpose). [XXX Optional: Please give a short explanation where the files reside - in /opt/openoffice.org.2.0, and after desktop installation also in /etc/openoffice.org.2.0. This was important for me to exclude files from Tripwire scanning.] [XXX Optional part] You can also delete some rpm files you do not need before installation. [XXX Please explain the meaning of the file names in a short table, similar to the setup guide of p.35] - ------------------------------------------------------------ I think the last paragraph can be ommitted since the base and core files have 84% of the size of all files and are obviosly needed. Hence storage should not be an issue. I would very estimate to have a profound guide what to do as non-root. This is the situation I had yesterday: As guest in a company, I found a preview-2.0 OO release on Novell's SuSE 9.3 (heavily broken, among other's outline numbering, paragraph formatting). I urgently needed the corrected release 2.0.1 to work, but there was no administrator available. To this end, I transformend all rpm's with rpm2cpio to cpio archives, observed that all entries had relative pathnames, and unpacked in some directory $WORK. After starting with $WORK/opt/openoffice2.0/program/soffice, anything worked nice (because "soffice" is a "relocatable" shell script). I still should correct some BASIC paths (I don't understand what they are needed for). If this is the legal way, I would add this receipt to the INSTALL file. I would finish this file if you give me the missing information and possibly correct some details. One really needs installations as non-root. One could also provide a simple shell script to automatize the operations but I think: If someone has "succeeded" in unpacking a tgz file, she can also type these short command lines which is more bullet-proof than any automatizm. I estimate OpenOffice high and wish that more people use it in a more qualified way, but the first step has become too hard after the switch from 1.x to 2.0. Best greetings Reinhard Wobst (working as a one-man company in security consulting and UNIX programming, having no Windows partition on any of my computers ;-) - -- The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAkPX7sMACgkQ92KQnaKMSxaDWACfQxFXx+D2wwntqRbvIu13xjpp +yMAn0Nsw5HR+5ViEv19UQ6gE3q8LPEJ =AKAQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
