On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:53:29AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: [OOo-H] Debian language > packages for OO": > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: > > > I would just love it if we had a language package for Debian. > > You aren't the only one. This is on our task list for 2004. > > > > > Does the project currently have patches for 1.1.1b ? > > No. > > A few weeks ago, I pointed out that even without being able to compile > OpenOffice, there's much a volunteer can probably do to help that project. > > Sure, it would be great if Sun or TKOS created Debian packages, but why > wait for them? Somebody with knowledge of building debs, and a little > knowledge, can do wonders.
BTW: what about the OpenOffice versions from Mandrake Cooker? Fedora? ooo.ximian.com? Some of them may provide sanely-partitioned and buildable OOo packages. > > For the English deb, you can take Sun's procompiled version, add a few > shell-scripts and such and call it a deb. I wonder if that's not what the > Debian people actually did (rather than compile the whole thing themselves). No. It is recompiled. Keep in mind that the Hebrew OOo packages contain some non-free fonts. I'm not sure about the English ones from OpenOffice.org. > For the Hebrew version, you can do the same. I'd be interested in a way to automate this procedure. Currently this process requires user interaction and X. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ============================================================== To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe hebrew" in the message body.
