for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

[Vaclav Kadlcik]

Hi,

since there has been various issues building LibreOffice from
ports lately and not everyone can or wants follow all the patches
flying around, I'd like to share that the Linux binary build runs
fine for me.

I downloaded Linux' x86 tar package, did tar xf to get RPMs
and finally:
  for i in *rpm; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -ivd; done
That created opt/libreoffice3.5. You can move where you like
and start it using libreoffice3.5/program/soffice.

(I'm tracking 9-STABLE with Linux compatibility enabled it this
matters.)

May this help someone lazy or impatient like me...
Oli
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Re: Using RPM to extract file

[Vaclav Kadlcik]

On 2011/09/21 18:19, Carmel wrote:

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:43:51 +0200
kron24 articulated:


On 2011/09/21 13:17, Carmel wrote:

I am attempting to obtain a PPD file for a Brother MFC-9560CDW
printer. According to this URL:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html,
I can download a file from:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#MFC-9560CDW
for this printer. Unfortunately, the file is only available in
either RPM or DEB format. I cannot figure out how to extract
the PPD from RPM file. I have read man rpm; however, I am
still confused. I tried following the instruction given on the site
for extracting the files; however, that only issued a warning about
an incorrect operating system.


First use rpm2cpio of archivers/rpm to get a cpio package.
Then continue with standard cpio(1).


Using rpm2cpio was easy enough; however, I just cannot figure out
how to get cpio to extract just the one file I want. Either it just
hangs or issues an error message. The man page is just about useless.
No useful example is given.



$ rpm2cpio mfc9560cdwcupswrapper-1.1.1-5.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd
./usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc9560cdw/cupswrapper/brcupsconfpt1
./usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc9560cdw/cupswrapper/cupswrappermfc9560cdw
./usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc9560cdw/cupswrapper/mfc9560cdw.ppd
85 blocks

HTH,
Oli
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