Allen, Anthony <anthony.allen <at> lmco.com> writes: > .... By the way, do you have a version of openoffice that is not in rpm > format for linux? I would like to use vers 2 on linux, but I need root to do this. (at work) .... > This is from the Setup Guide and has been used successfully by a user on one of the forums who also did not have root privileges:
Installation on Other UNIX systems If you have a UNIX distribution that does not have an up-to-date rpm or you are unsure that you system is current and rpm installation is failing, then try the following: .... b) Get and use rpm2cpio to convert the rpm files to cpio archives and then employ cpio to install the software. There is a perl version of rpm2cpio at http://www.iagora.com/~espel/rpm2cpio that should be portable. However, if it fails, try precompiled rpm-package (including rpm2cpio) from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/rpm-4.1.i386.tar.gz or get the sources from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/rpm-4.1.tar.gz c) Install any language packs needed for OpenOffice.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
