I wouldn't want their standard installation either. I want software to reside where I put it and there to stand alone -- untangled into the system. I don't/won't load, for example, Netscape or Firefox or RealPlayer or Opera (trash anyway) into their intended directories because it screws up the system and means that one must go back to the beginning and reload a whole swat of crap software into the burrowed-in system every time one upgrades the system.
One of the nice issues with OpenOffice was that its intallation program to v1.1.5 allowed for installations into a directory tree that I wanted and not one conceived by some bureaucratic-programmer-fool. If I can hack OpenOffice 2 to stand alone in directory /usr/local/OpenOffice2, I'll run it. Otherwise, I'll run version 1.1.5 until it falls so far out of date that I pick up whatever new and clever is going from some other source. I don't mind moving through software that doesn't oblige conforming to the sloppy models that are so prevalent in Windows and evermore, now, in Linux. Linux is being f.....d by fools... RedHat started that process and I think it's a shame. It may be a conspiracy to destroy the development! I've stayed over the years with Slackware because it has been least obligatory in following some fool's model of a system. It has stayed pretty much "traditional" and nothing that I've seen come beyond traditional is any improvement at all. I expect that I will hack on the SlackBuild installation and organize it into a stand alone directory tree in "/usr/local/OpenOffice2", tar it and then distribute this across the machines I run in my labs. I don't want my systems to look like yours. On 10/22/05, CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri October 21 2005 03:23, + Olivia Jensen wrote: > > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > > I've spent about 3 hours trying to install version 2.0 on my office > > linux system. Because your current version uses the incredibly > > primitive *.rpm installer, > > Please contact your Linux distributor and ask them to contribute some of the > money you paid for the product or the equivalent in their employees time to > the OpenOffice.org project so that their installation mechanism can be > supported. this is what the RedHat, Novell/SuSE companies have already done. > Or you can step up and help also. > > Please reply to [email protected] only > > -- > CPH : openoffice.org contributor > > Maybe your question has been answered already? > http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ > -- Le bonheur d'être moi.... Olivia Jensen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
