Re: [gentoo-user] Removing OpenOffice 1.0.2 problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Collins

Thanks for your advice.

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OpenOffice 1.0.2

1)
The package was downloaded and installed from Gentoo wetsite.  It did 
not work properly.  I mistakenly removed it with ./setup method which 
could not remove all files.  I found follows remained.

/etc/openoffice
/var/db/pkg/app-office/openoffice-bin-1.02, etc
/var/cache/edb/dep/app-office/openoffice-bin-1.0.2, etc
/usr/kde/3.1/share/icons/crystalsvg/scalable/apps/oppenoffice.svgz
/usr/portage/metadata/cache/app-opffice/office-bin-1.0.2, etc
/usr/portage/packages/ALL/openoffice-bin-1.0.2tbz2
/usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin, etc
etc.
Kindly advise how to remove all of them collectively?  OR I have to 
remove them manually.

I don't think you need to worry about any of these; just leave them alone.
 

Noted with thanks

2)
After its complete removal I expect to install OpenOffice 1.1.  How can 
I search whether OO 1.1 is available on Gentoo website.  If OO 1.1 is 
not available there can I install OO 1.1 from its tarball to be 
downloaded from OO website.

You have several choices:

Yes, gentoo has the 1.1 builds.

Compile from source:  Requires many hours and 4-5G temp work space (!!!!).

1. emerge openoffice
2. emerge openoffice-ximian
Install binary:

1. emerge openoffice-bin
2. Download an openoffice binary tarball
3. Dowload an openoffice-ximian tarball.
I'm lazy; I prefer the binary install.  Some people swear by the -ximian builds,
but I haven't noticed a lot of difference.
 

Space is not a problem to me.  I am running Gentoo 1.4 on a slow PC-AMD, 
K7 with 40G hard drive.  But speed is a major problem.  I took 72 hours 
to install Gentoo 1.4

If I download OO1.1 tarball from OO website and start its installation, 
it will be much quicker.  Is there any difference compared with 
compiling it from Gentoo ebuild.

B.R.
Stephen
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