On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 11:46, Simon Wong wrote: > On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 09:35, Ken Foskey wrote: > > Hi... > > > > We now have Openoffice.org packages for debian on i386 and and powerpc. > > I was going to give these a go (Debian) but noticed they need gcc3 and > libstdc++3.
Install gcc-3.0, it exists happily with gcc 2.95. > Will installing those packages affect my current gcc 2.9.5 setup? I > really don't want to have to stuff around with re-fixing up my current > build system. > > Also, is the Open Office app stable enough to use? Open Office is 'interesting' to get compiled. On my P350 it was 2 days to compile completely from end to end. Should be a lot faster now, downloading fresh copies to play with now. The trick with Open office is not to try and compile the head, typically you would issue a cvs command like this: export CVSROOT=":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs" cvs co OpenOffice This just will not work at all with OpenOffice.org, there are a number of fixes throughout the tree and I cannot really figure how they all relate and I have been playing with this for some time. you must use a specific tag to grad the correct source like this: cvs co -r OO_STABLE_1 OpenOffice Unless you really want to work on the source code then I recommend that you download the tar ball and install that. Not worth the hassle. Thanks KenF PS: The correct name is OpenOffice.org apparently someone else 'owns' the name OpenOffice. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
