Re: Installation

2022-07-08 Thread F Campos Costero
The instructions in the following forum tutorial may be a little easier for Linux novices: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50119 Regards, Francis On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 12:21 PM Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi, > > NG talked about making the instructions for installing AOO on

Re: Installation

2022-07-08 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hi, NG talked about making the instructions for installing AOO on Linux more clear for the end user. E.g. "cd" could be explained as "change to the directory". That's something we should think about... However, since AOO is not part of any repository (I know of) it now has to be installed by

Re: Installation

2022-07-08 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, NG talked about a GNU/Linux user who wants to install RPM or deb packages. Linux != Windows and Linux is not a Windows for poors. It is free as in free speech not as in free beer. If you want to use a Free Software operating system you can't expect, that the developers want to

Fwd: [VOTE] Release AOO 4.1.13-RC1 as GA

2022-07-08 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hallo Alle, Hier auch nochmal zur Info, der "Release Candidate 1" von AOO 4.1.13 ist bereit zum testen: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.13-RC1/ "Votes" dann bitte nur auf d...@openoffice.apache.org Gruß, Matthias Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff:

Re: Installation

2022-07-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:19 08/07/2022 -0400, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Brian Barker wrote: At 15:21 08/07/2022 +0200, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote: Am 08.07.22 um 13:22 schrieb NG: "2. cd into the DEBS or RPMS subdirectory of the installation directory. 'cd' does the same in DOS like it does in unix like

Re: Installation

2022-07-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Brian Barker wrote: At 15:21 08/07/2022 +0200, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote: Am 08.07.22 um 13:22 schrieb NG: "2. cd into the DEBS or RPMS subdirectory of the installation directory. 'cd' does the same in DOS like it does in unix like operation systems. Does anyone still use DOS?! The

Re: Installation

2022-07-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:21 08/07/2022 +0200, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote: Am 08.07.22 um 13:22 schrieb NG: "2. cd into the DEBS or RPMS subdirectory of the installation directory. 'cd' does the same in DOS like it does in unix like operation systems. Does anyone still use DOS?! The original question was about

Re: Installation

2022-07-08 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, just some remarks: Am 08.07.22 um 13:22 schrieb NG: Hello, "2. cd into the DEBS or RPMS subdirectory of the installation directory. You should see a lot of debs here and one sub-directory called "desktop-integration"." A novice new to Linux is unlikely to know what "cd" means,

Installation

2022-07-08 Thread NG
Hello, I'm writing in the hope the dev team will take notice of my feedback, and hopefully change the instructions for novice Linux users who are not geeks, have no intention of ever becoming one and would appreciate installations as easy as clicking on an exe file, especially if they've