Grzegorz Szymański wrote:
I'm user of openoffice siute. I would like to test new 2.0 beta version but when I'v downoloaded
tarball for linux and decompressed it I'v seen a rpm packages. Why openoffice developers
decided to release openoffiece 2.0beta in rmp packages. Earlier relesases of openoffice
had had a setup program and install script and by means of this files I was able to install OO
in directory I'v choose on my gentoo linux with no problems. Latest release take out from me
this possibility and I have to instal rpm software..
With respect. Grzegorz Szymanski.
I've got a portage overlay for dealing with this BS. It's available at: http://entropy.homelinux.org/openoffice-bin.tar.bz2
Download it somewhere.
Make a portage overlay directory somewhere if you don't already have one. I suggest /usr/local/portage
( Read up on portage overlays )
Edit your make.conf file and make sure the PORTAGE_OVERLAY ( or something ) points to that location.
Now:
cd /usr/local/portage mkdir app-office cd app-office
Now unpack the portage overlay you just downloaded: tar -jxvf /path/to/openoffice-bin.tar.bz2
Now put the big binary download ( with all the rpms ) into /usr/portage/distfiles
Now check that portage can 'see' your overlay:
emerge -p openoffice-bin
It *should* say:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild f ] app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.79
That 'f' mean 'fetch restriction', meaning that the emerge will FAIL if you don't have the right binary file in /usr/portage/distfiles
Even though it says 1.9.79, it will install the beta candidate. I haven't figured out how to deal with the ever-changing naming scheme yet. I also haven't updated to the actual beta release yet. From what I can see, though, nothing has changed since 1.9.79 anyway. Feel free to update the ebuild to use the real beta. Actually feel free to make it better generally and email changes back. I've been meaning to post it to the Gentoo forums, but I'm snowed under in other BS at the moment.
Note that this ebuild originally came from someone else. I've hacked it to install on our systems, and I've had limited success with it. It installs, I'll say that much for it. It's a bit crashy though.
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