On Monday 07 March 2005 07:06 am, Aaron Sloman wrote: > This page > http://download.openoffice.org/2.0beta/instructions.html > > states > > Installation Steps > > 1. Unpack the downloaded image into a directory. For > example,Currently, the following command would unpack into the > current directory: > > tar xvzf Ooo_1.9.m79_native_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz > 2. Su to root, if necessary. > 3. cd into the directory with the unpacked image. This could be > RPMS. 4. Delete any rpm files that do not apply to your system. For > example, on a Fedora Core 3 system, delete any rpms specific to > another distribution such as > openofficeorg-suse-menus-1.9.79-1.noarch.rpm. > 5. Then execute rpm -Uvih *rpm. > > I found that step 5 produced error messages because I had previously > installed the m79 version and some of the new versions have the same > names, so that rpm thought they were already installed, and that led > to conflicts. > > So I tried > > rpm -Uvih --force *rpm > > That worked. So I suggest altering the web page to mention the need > to use '--force' if updating an earlier test version. > > However the program crashed when I tried it on a powerpoint file > using ms Comic Sans which works fine on OO 1.1.4 > > The automatic fault reporting mechanism has just send in a report. > > I much prefer being able to untar a test version into a directory > that can coexist with older test versions, instead of using rpm, > which makes it impossible to have an old and a new version so that if > the new version goes wrong you can continue to use the old one. > > Fortunately, I still have 1.1.4 accessible the old way (not using > rpms). > > Many thanks for a great product. It allows me to collaborate with > MS users, though my personal preference is always for latex! > > Cheers > > Aaron > http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/
I presently have both OOo1.9.69 and OOo 2.0 Beta on my Linux system. I added an extra step to the install proceedure before steps 1. I renamed the RPMS directory for the 1.9.69 files to RPMS-69. Then when I extracted the Beta files, a RPMS directory was created and the files placed into it. I had no problems after that. I have since renamed the new RPMS directory to RPMS-79 in case I want to download and use further Beta versions of OOo. Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
