Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
% On 02/25/03 20:11, Tim Wunder wrote:
% >On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote:
% >>On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote:
% >>> Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install?
% >>> My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't have the
% >>> specific error handy (sorry), so I'm just looking for verification that
% >>> it can be done. I've tried the RPM from Mandrake's Cooker site, and
% >>> that's failing, too.
% >>
% >>My approach would be: get the binary package from OO.org, but then I'm
% >>never a fan of RPM. <grin>
% >
% >heh...
% >That's what we did. I prefer compiling source and installing as RPM via
% >checkinstall. But I'm certainly *not* going to compile OOo...
%
% why not? don't have 18 hours to kill? ;)
The good news is that you don't have to watch it compile. I build
the latest GCC snapshot and the latest XFree from CVS every night
while I sleep. They both seem to build faster, in fact, if I *don't*
watch. ;-)
Kurt
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