Re: [gentoo-user] Removing OpenOffice 1.0.2 problem

[Stephen Liu]

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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

With a slow machine you'll need in excess of 24 hours, my guess.  I'd say forget
it.
 

Noted with thanks

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.

In my opinion, not much.  Gentoo does setup additional startup files for writer,
spreadsheet, etc., but I have no problem starting soffice (that's the name) and
then selecting the appropriate document type to open.
Most of the time I just grab the binary from the OO website and put the
networked version it in /opt.
 

That is what I am doing on most packages on other distro, starting from 
a tarball downloaded.  In addition I use 'checkinstall' to build a .rpm 
package, easy to remove in case of need.

Some folks on this list gave me advice that Gentoo is not built for that.

It's going to be slow starting for you with a slow machine (particular if you
don't have a lot of memory), but you can leave it running.  In my case
(Athlon-XP 1800+ with 512M) it's about 10 seconds to start.  For you it could be
as much as a minute.
 

I have another RH8.0 box running Athlon 2100+ with 512M.  OO working not 
much better there at start.  I have seen many complaints in this respect 
on OO mailing list.  We have to accept it if we need OO waiting for 
another version to come.

Thanks.

B.R.
Stephen
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