On 02/10/2009 10:38 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Joe Smith wrote:
>> $ (cd $TARGET_DIR && for r in
>> $SOURCE_DIR/OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/RPMS/*.rpm; do
>> rpm2cpio "$r" | cpio -id; done)
>
> This is the same method as is described here:
>
> NoOp wrote:
>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel
>
> This unpacks the .rpm files using rpm2cpio, which works fine. The setup
> script also uses this method to unpack the JRE prior to starting the
> installer utility. I'm curious why the installer utility itself doesn't
> fall back on rpm2cpio when rpm fails; instead it uses an option known
> not to work.
Don't know. I use .deb files for my system (Ubuntu) & installed rpm
(4.4.2.1) which inlcudes rmp2cpio etc. I've not had any problems using
rpm or debs when using the instructions.
>
> Mike Dawe wrote:
>> "Note, to use --dbpath as non root, customers will need to define the
>> %_rpmlock_path macro to a location that can be written to; future
>> versions of RPM use '%{_dbpath}/__db.000'."
>
> This macro is only available in versions of rpm newer than mine. rpm
> 4.3.3 has only a hard-coded path. 4.6.0 supports this macro. I'm not
> sure exactly when this feature was added. I see that macros can be
> defined in ~/.rpmmacros , but I suppose it might be possible to use the
> --define command-line option from within the context of the installer
> program. I'm not sure; I'm only skimming the sources here.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. Now that I have a working OpenOffice.org
> installation, my remaining concern is that I'd like to see it made easy
> for others to do non-root installation on Unix.
>
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