On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:50, Alexandro wrote:
> 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/

or here:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/openoffice.org
for OOo2.0.1-2

Richard.

> 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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