(I posted on Ubuntu list, but though it can be useful to users here as well, so here it is)
Hello, Many times I have tried to play with the dev builds temporarily. The installation is usually straightforward, but removal is not. Here are steps I follow for all this. Download the dev build. Let us assume it is OOO310_dev.tgz and that it is downloaded in /tmp Extract the download archive: $> cd /tmp $> tar zxf OOO310_dev.tgz The above step usually creates a new directory. Assume that in our example, it is called OOO310_dev (don't delete this dir just yet, even though it is not really needed after installation, we will use this to extract the names of the packages that were installed). Next, go in to the DEBS directory in that directory and install the dev build using dpkg: $> cd OOO310_dev/DEBS $> sudo dpkg -i --instdir=/usr/local *.deb Here, "--instdir=/usr/local" tells dpkg to install the package in opt directory in /usr/local directory. Without this switch, the packages are installed in opt directory in / directory (the default). I prefer to custom installed packages to go to /usr/local, you may choose differently though. Next, start openoffice with command /usr/local/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice and play around with it. Removing this is not intuitive, should one want to do so. What one needs is the names of all the package that were installed earlier. Extract the package names from the Debs (you can do this step right after installed the DEBS above): $> for f in *.deb; do echo $f; \ pkg=`echo $f | sed -e 's/\(.*\)_.*_.*\.deb/\1/'`; \ echo -n "$pkg " >> ~/Desktop/ooo3devpkgs.txt; done The package names are saved then in ~/Desktop/ooo3devpkgs.txt. One just selects these and paste these in the following command to purge the packages that were installed: $> sudo dpkg -P <paste the packages here> Finally, one needs to remove the directories left over from the installation: $> cd /usr/local/opt $> sudo rm -rf openoffice.org* (NB: I fail to understand why the directories are not removed by dpkg!?) Corrections and improvements are welcome. Standard disclaimer: Use the above instructions at your own risk. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
