On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 16:31, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Richard Hayes"> > > > Is anyone building Debian .debs for OpenOffice? > > > > I can not find it on any distros. > > Yeah, but it's a huuuuge job doing them the "Debian Way". They won't be in > woody, but should turn up in sid some time. I think there's a mailing list > for the DD's working on it, which you might want to check out.
There are some fundamental snafus with the way OO is set up. This means that a real debian package is quite a way away. There is a guy called Jan working on stripping out the major crap and using proper dependencies to get a tight OO package. This should run heaps faster because it will not load its own copies of certain libraries if they are in use on your system which I think is highly likely. To get OO to install without running setup for each user is a bigger problem as well. This will take time. I expect release one will require a setup script for every user in the near future. Apparently there is a package which contains the complete OO setup. This will probably never make release though. Suggestion grab the binary download and install it. DON'T USE 642 it is not a well release :-). KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
