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On Sunday 15 May 2005 09:10 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2005 09:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >On Sunday 15 May 2005 07:52, James Elliott wrote:
> >>Hi Jeff
> >>
> >>Thanks for your reply.
> >>
> >>I have never had a problem before and have downloaded every version
> >> of OOo that has been so far produced.
> >>
> >>Unless I missed something, this time there only seemed to be 2
> >> choices: 1. download the 1.9+ beta version, or
> >>2. download the 1.1.4 Stable version using Bit Torrent - I
> >> couldn't see any HTML option which, like you, is what I have used
> >> in the past.
> >
> >I just now found the patch for 1.1.4 was available as an html
> >initiated download, and the latest m100 beta is also coming in as I
> >type, so maybe we were a bit premature?
> >
> >For those lamenting the lack of other versions, I cannot see
> > anything wrong with restricting it to the latest beta and the
> > latest stable versions.
>
> However, I was not prepared to find that when I un-tarred the m100
> download, that it was all in little pieces, in rpm format! And
> apparently without anything that looks like an installer script so
> one could choose where to put it by overriding the builtin rpm paths.
>
> I'm not too sure at this point, if I wanna let rpm overwrite my
> system willy-nilly or not. The 1.9.79 I have now is installed in
> /opt, which seems like a good place for beta software.
>
> The last time I tried to get rpm to override its builtin paths, it
> failed, fortunatly before it actually wrote anything. We've had some
> upgrades to rpm in the 3 or 4 years since I last tried that, does it
> now work correctly?
>
> >>Many thanks, James Elliott
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Jeff Shrowder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: <[email protected]>
> >>Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 11:14 AM
> >>Subject: Re: [users] Downloading OOo 1.1.4
> >>
> >>> James Elliott wrote:
> >>>> I thought I might update to the stable 1.1.4
> >>>> Unfortunately, since I had so many copies of OOo on my computer,
> >>>> from 1.0 onwards, I decided to uninstall all of them before
> >>>> downloading 1.1.4, not realising that OOo had switched over to
> >>>> Bit Torrent downloads.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have downloaded and installed JRE 5.0
> >>>> I have downloaded and installed Azureus
> >>>> I have had three goes at downloading OOo 1.1.4 with no success
> >>>>
> >>>> There does not seem to be an HTML download alternative - so now
> >>>> I have no office software at all on my computer - can anyone
> >>>> help!
> >>>>
> >>>> I would be obliged if anyone on this list could give me SIMPLE
> >>>> instructions on how to downloading OOo 1.1.4 - I have tired
> >>>> following the ones on the several Web pages (OOo, Bit Torrent,
> >>>> Azures) without success.
> >>>>
> >>>> Many thanks, James Elliott
> >>>>
> >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>- ----
> >>>
> >>> James,
> >>> Perhaps I don't understand your problems but I've never had a
> >>> problem downloading any version of OOo (Firefox is my friend) and
> >>> I only have "copper wire access".
> >>> Yes, it means a 5 or 6 hour download, but I initiate that last
> >>> thing of an evening and am thus assured of not being woken at say
> >>> 2 am with "Sorry, wrong number" :-)
> >>>
> >>> The method I use is this:
> >>> Login to My Start Page on the OOo site
> >>> Click on the link (right hand side of screen under DOWNLOADS)
> >>> http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4
> >>> Select Language from the drop-down menu
> >>> Select platform from the drop-down menu
> >>> Select Download Site from the drop-down menu
> >>> Click on Continue Download
> >>> ... and go to bed :-)
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jeff
The Linux RPM's install OOo in the /opt directory by default.
Dan
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