My name is David Rao
I'm an old time linux user way back to kernel verion 0.99 and a keen supporter
of Open Source (I've a few projects myself on sourceforge ... unfortunately I
no longer have time to maintain them).
I use Open Office as a MS Office replacement and I often end up manually
installing Open Office on non redhat based distributions.
I just subscribed here to let anyone else intrested on a quick and dirty way to
get Open Office instelled on a non rpm based distribution.
The problem with that is that although generally all required packages are
installed even if you have the Redhat Package Manager installed the database is
empty and the Open Office installer will fail all dependencies.
What I do to work around this is open up the detail box to get a list of the
packages I wanted to install (after a custom setup) and paste it into a file
that I then manipulate with vi to make it into a install script that will
install the packages ignoring dependencies.
Here is a copy of my last such effort:
PKG_LIST="jre-6u20-linux-i586.rpm ooobasis3.2-base-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-binfilter-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm ooobasis3.2-calc-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-core01-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm ooobasis3.2-core02-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-core03-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm ooobasis3.2-core04-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-core05-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm ooobasis3.2-core06-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-core07-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm ooobasis3.2-draw-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-en-US-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-en-US-base-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-en-US-binfilter-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-en-US-calc-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-en-US-draw-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-en-US-help-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-en-US-impress-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-en-US-math-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-en-US-res-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-en-US-writer-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-graphicfilter-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-images-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm ooobasis3.2-impress-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-math-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-onlineupdate-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-ooofonts-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-oooimprovement-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-ooolinguistic-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
ooobasis3.2-pyuno-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm ooobasis3.2-writer-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-ure-1.6.1-9502.i586.rpm openoffice.org-userland-1.0-0.noarch.rpm
openoffice.org3-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm openoffice.org3-base-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
openoffice.org3-calc-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
openoffice.org3-dict-en-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
openoffice.org3-dict-es-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
openoffice.org3-dict-fr-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
openoffice.org3-draw-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
openoffice.org3-en-US-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
openoffice.org3-impress-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
openoffice.org3-math-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm
openoffice.org3-writer-3.2.1-9502.i586.rpm"
for PKG in $PKG_LIST
do
if [ -f ./RPMS/$PKG ]
then
rpm -i --force --nodeps ./RPMS/$PKG
else
#the package is not in the main RPMS directory ... will try to find it
MPKG=$(find . -type f -name $PKG |tail -i)
[ -f $MPKG ] && rpm -i --force --nodeps $MPKG
fi
done
Maybe one day the Open Office install script will in someway address non rpm
based distributions ... in the meantime this might be of some help.
The PGK_LIST variable is to be extracted from the detail error message box and
will depend on the version and on what your install selection is.
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