On Saturday 29 October 2005 08:48 pm, Asif Lodhi wrote:
> Hi Matej,
>
> On 10/29/05, Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Asif Lodhi wrote:
> > > X......................................................................
> > >...................... I am desperate to use OO-2.0 but can't seem to do
> > > anything with these RPMS. If I download the sources, do I get the
> > > standard
> > > configure/make/make-install thing?
> >
> > I don't use RPM-based distro anymore, but wouldn't something like
> >
> > # rpm -i *.rpm
> > work (I think that rpm should be able to guess the proper order)?
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. I don't either. I thought that the
> tar.gz would be something like the FireFox installer's tar.gz file
> that lets you install stuff in the directory of your choice (I usually
> install under my home directory tree) but it turned out to be a bundle
> of RPMs. I have a very bad experience of installing RPM-based
> software downloaded from the Internet!
>
> But, do you know of any problems/difficulties (dependency-related
> problems, etc.) related to installing from the sources? I assume
> there is a standard configure/make/make-install procedure. Further,
> how long do you think the configure/make/make-install is going to take
> on my FC3/1.7GHz Celeron/256MB ?
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Asif
I would recommend that you do the following:
1) Check the md5sum of your download:
md5sum OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
2) Check the number you get against the md5sum listed on the OOo web site
(link is on the download page). If it is the same number, proceed. Otherwise,
you have a corrupt file, and you need to start over with another download.
3) Since you have extracted the files, enter the RPMS folder.
4) Become root by entering the "su" command and entering your root password.
5) rpm -ivh *.rpm (This will show the progress of the installation.)
6) Enter the "desktop-integration subfolder.
7) rpm -ivh openoffice.org-redhat-menus-2.0.0-3.noarch.rpm (This creates the
links in the Menu to OOo.)
This is what I do when I install this program on my Mandriva Linux OS. (I
use openoffice.org-mandriva-menus-2.0.0-3.noarch.rpm instead of the redhat
one because that is my OS.) I have no problems with this.
This places OOo in the /opt/ openoffice2.0 folder. To start OOo the first
time, use this command from the command line:
exit (This will return you from the root user to your personal user account.)
Then use this command:
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice (This will run OOo for the first
time.)
Dan
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/
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