On Thursday 23 June 2005 2:09 am, Dave Barton wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:37 +1000, Dave Barton wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 20:43 -0700, Tim Hanson wrote: > > > I have the original beta that shipped with SuSE 9.3, and would like to > > > update to one of the newer snapshots. All the files are named > > > *.i586.rpm. Will these work on 64 bit? If not, is there something I > > > can use without compiling the whole thing? > > > > Yes Tim OOo will work. I have run several versions 1.9.xxx.586 on SuSE > > 9.3 64bit and have not experienced any problems. > > > > HTH > > Dave > > Just as an extra little pointer. I believe the beta of OOo included with > 9.3 is a SuSE modification, so it might be wise to uninstall the SuSE > version before installing the OOo build.
Good advice.....and is what I did. The 2.0 beta from oo.org works fine for me. > The installation method I use is as follows: > > Use Ark to extract the files. When the tar package is extracted it > creates sub-directories "RPMS" and "RPMS/desktop-integration". > As root: > cd some-directory/RPMS > rpm -Uvih *rpm > If there are no errors. > Use Package Manager to install the SuSE menus package found in the > "RPMS/desktop-integration" directory. Correct. But, Konq. will easy extract the dir. with files, so you don't need to use ark. ;) Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
