On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 13:22 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote: > I am coming late to this thread, but this talk of a "single-button" > install scares me. I take the downloaded Linux binary LO package and > re-package it into a Slackware Linux installation package. I use a > script I created to do this and all I have to do when a new LO release > comes out is to change the version and run the script. Out comes a > Slackware package, ready for installation. I surely hope that any > effort going to a single-point installer for LO, which would probably > break my process, will not be the only way to install LO in the future, > and the current installation scheme will still be an option. > Girvin Herr > What I have seen with Linux "one-click" installers is they actually invoke the distro software installer. This requires user confirmation before the install occurs (password entry). So it is as secure as any other package installation. The "one-click" installers are normally distro (distro family) specific.
Currently I have two versions of LO installed, one from the repository and a downloaded version. > > On 10/08/2013 08:08 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > > Hi :) > > +1 > > it's a historical problem. LibreOffice is moving towards a more normal > > installer. Sun wasn't keen on such gimmicks when developed by the > > community. Go-oo didn't need a decent installer because it didn't develop > > so fast = so it could settle on whichever version was supplied in the OS. > > > > LibreOffice does develop quickly and people do want to keep up so it kinda > > does need a normal installer and is developing one. > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: James Knott <james.kn...@rogers.com> > > To: "lo >> LibreOffice" <users@global.libreoffice.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 15:56 > > Subject: Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was > > Corrupt Installer Errors??) > > > > > > Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > >> Have you tried to do that for LO? > >> How many package files need to be run to install LO on a Linux "box"? > >> There are 52 .deb files to run/install in the 4.1.2 64-bit Debian > >> install, plus the help pack, plus the language pack if needed. > >> > >> Like to do a single click or double-click to install all of those files? > >> > > The problem is with the way LO is distributed. I have no idea why they > > do it that way. There are other programs available where clicking on > > the RPM works fine. > > > > > > -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
