Dear all, After analyzing the requirements more deeply, Open Office would only be needed to convert Microsoft Office documents to PDF. So a sort of "headless" installation would be sufficient.
I downloaded the OpenOffice RPMs suggested by Bruce available from OpenOffice.org but I could not manage to install them on SLES 11 as rpmlib(Filedigest) and another component of RPM are at a higher version than expected by the RPM package. Currently I am installing SLES 10 SP2 to see if the RPMS could be installed in that environment. Furthermore I would be very thankful if somebody could point me to a good MS Office / PDF converter that would run on SLES 11 as alternative as I cannot manage to make OpenOffice available. Kind regards, Florian On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Florian Bilek <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear all, > > Thank you all for your contributions. > > I will study that deeper. I think also that the GUI of OO will not be > needed. But the software comes from a third party and up to now I didn't had > the opportunity to speak with them. I saw their prereq list and there was > either Open Office, which seems to me as "maybe possible" and MS Office on > Wine which I understood will never work on z/Series since Wine only > intercepts Windows API calls but runs still the Intel code of the > application. > > Let's see what can be done. > > Kind regards, > Florian > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:48 PM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 6/7/10 2:40 PM, "Gentry, Stephen" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I'll add my 2 cents. Since Open Office is heavy on the Java part and >> > therefore cpu intensive, I wouldn't think it would be a good candidate >> > to run on the z platform. I suppose if you had enough ponies, i.e., >> > mips then it could be usable. >> > I use it here but it's more to show that it will run. >> >> If you're just using it for document conversion, you can run it in batch >> mode, which is dramatically less CPU-intensive, as it doesn't have to >> initialize all the GUI overhead stuff. It's still not as light as a plain >> C >> app would be, but it's acceptable. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> > > > > -- > Best regards > > Florian Bilek > -- Best regards Florian Bilek ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
