Andrew Greig wrote:
The reason the re-location will not work is because I have the residue
of a failed attempt to load OOo 2.0 Beta. There are some other files
there that are preventing me from doing a "clean" install of OOo 2.0
Beta. It seems that the rpm program has detected these residual files
and determined that I have an operating install. So it will not allow
me to set the prefix to anything apart from /opt (default).
I know that it will load alongside a 1.1.4 install but this is not what
I am trying to achieve. I do not want to have to repartition my hard
drive just so that I can accept an install of OOo 2.0 Beta into /opt.
/opt has been unused for the last three years, whereas most programs
from outside the Distro have happily installed themselves in /usr/local,
so why the need to screw around with /opt?
I personally think that the previous installer was friendlier than all
the BS I have to go through for an rpm install. Rpm was never meant to
be this big a pain in the neck, quite the opposite in fact. It was
meant to make it easy to install and remove packages, which is fine
until you screw around with non-standard install locations.
Andrew
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/opt is still in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (2.3) so it
acceptable to install in /opt. I have 5 different applications
installed in /opt. OOo is just one of them. Thus /opt is a standard
location to install an application that does not come with your OS.
"/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software
packages."
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES
Installation in /usr/local is another valid location under the standard.
"The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when
installing software locally. "
I don't have problems installing using RPM, only when working with
RedHats modified OOo in comparison to the version from OOo.org site.
I totally removed the RedHat version some time ago. If you are using
RedHat, then this may be where your problem lays.
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Robin Laing
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