2009/3/10 Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 15:10 +0000, Harold Fuchs wrote: > > On 10/03/2009 14:57, Mirce wrote: > > > Harold Fuchs wrote: > > >> Is this anything to do with the option to have OOo automatically check > > >> for updates? Tools>Options>OpenOffice.org>Online Update. But my 2.4.1 > > >> version on Win XP Pro only offers daily, weekly or monthly checks so > it > > >> shouldn't happen every time you start OOo. So perhaps this isn't the > > >> solution ??? Could you use your firewall to stop OOo connecting? Would > > >> it help even if you could? OOo might keep trying ... > > > As I said, I am Linux user, I use the OO's linux versions, and I have > been using > > > them since the very begining of OO. It is clear why: there was no other > office > > > software for Linux. All versions are connecting to the internet, and > they don't > > > have any "Online Update" option that I can see. > > Hmmm. I don't have access to a Linux system but I'm surprised OOo > > doesn't have that option given it has it in Windows. On my system, as I > > said, it's at > > Tools>Options>OpenOffice.org>Online Update > > I'm on openSUSE 11.1 and do not have this options; however, OOo starts > almost instantly and I have active network connections *but* OOo cannot > connect to the Internet due to network security infrastructure. I doubt > that this is the issue - if it was I would have to wait for connection > time outs every time I started OOo. > > I suspect that many distributions remove this auto-update feature since > (a) most users won't have sufficient access to update the application > and (b) you want updates to all be managed by the distributions package > management. > -- > OpenGroupware developer: [email protected] > <http://whitemiceconsulting.blogspot.com/> > OpenGroupare & Cyrus IMAPd documenation @ > <http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/whitemice/wmogag/file_view>
The (Swedish-language) repository version of Ubuntu 3.0 (1:3.0.1-1ubuntu1~intrepid1) installed on my (64-bit) Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) setup does not provide the option of automatically checking for updates ; however, when updates are added to the repository I can choose to install them. I also have (English-language) OOO-dev3.1.0 m4 (Build 9388) installed ; there, in distinction to the former case, I can tick an option to automatically check for updates daily, weekly, or monthly via «Tools» → «Options» → «Online Update», but when I click the «Check now» button, I always get a message to the effect that «Checking for an update failed». In any event, on my machine (AMD 64 X 2 5000+, 4 GB RAM), both versions of OOo load more quickly than I should be able to measure with a hand-held stopwatch.... Henri
