There are .deb distributions too, I think that the suggestion is more to
make it easy to download.
check it here:
http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/debian/debian/pool/OOO680/

On 2/2/06, Jem Berkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I really think you would do the Linux user base a favour by offering,
> as you did before, generic binary installations (through some kind of
> setup program).  I had been using that method throughout the 1.x
> releases and it was a reliable way to install and maintain OpenOffice
> no matter what the distribution was.
>
> The reason I suggest this is that not every distribution uses RPM.  By
> offering your main Linux download based on RPM, you imply support for
> mainstream distributions only.  Someone like myself who uses
> Slackware, and from time to time "no distribution" misses the previous
> distribution-neutral setup program.
>
> Jem Berkes
> University of Waterloo
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