On Monday 07 March 2005 13:06, + Aaron Sloman wrote:
> [ MODERATED ] ***********************
> 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.
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for the report. However please note that the developers (both the
programmers, web developers, QA people, etc are limited in the amount of time
that they have. I hope that you appreciate the are concentrating on the
developement of OpenOffice.org 2.0 and not on corner cases that experienced
testers/users have no problems with.
Best regards,
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CPH : openoffice.org contributor
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