Someone gave you a link for a more detailed explanation for installing
the official version on a Debian system. There is an explanation
specifically related to Ubuntu here:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=194370#194370
An earlier post in the same thread contains links to other relevant threads:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=194247#194247
BTW, your question about using Japanese and Chinese characters would
justify a new thread.
M Henri Day wrote:
Dear Terry,
I must have skimmed through the set-up guide much too quickly, as I
didn't
note any references to aliens (I concentrated my reading on passages that
seemed relevant to Ubuntu/Debian) there. Anyway, having been a
science-fiction aficionado from my earliest boyhood, I know what
aliens are
! In any event, I did find the following passage in the guide :
The simplest way to install the OpenOffice.org package you've
downloaded is
use the
command dpkg -i (short for dpkg install).
1. First log on as root or from the GUI, open a root terminal.
2. Type:
dpkg -i -force-overwrite openoffice.org*.deb \
desktop-integration/openoffice.org-debian-menus*.deb
and openoffice.org will be installed. If you already had an older
version, dpkg will
upgrade it rather than installing both versions at once.
3. Install any language packs needed for OpenOffice.org.
As I wrote in reply to Javier's instructions, given my lack of experience
with both Ubuntu and OOo, I'm loathe to perform any bold experiments
which
take me out of my (rather shallow) depth, but perhaps the above is the
way
to go and could be used to download and install OOo 2.1 ? In any event,
thanks for your kind reply !...
Henri
2006/12/15, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Have a look at OOo's Setup Guide for starters. It may explain alien
sufficiently. Otherwise, look in your distro's help resources (always
fun).
The distros have not mastered the art of making their operating systems
workable for software, so they mess around with software to make it work
without the necessary libraries on their operating systems.
While at it, some of them introduce their own quaint ideas into the
software, including new "undocumented features" (i.e. breakages) in the
process. As I think I mentioned, the OOo forum is replete with
complaints from users of the Ubuntu and Debian versions of OpenOffice.
The Ubuntu forums are replete with complaints.
http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE.pdf
http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE_A4.pdf
M Henri Day wrote:
> It just goes to show, things aren't always what they seem to be ! I'm
> beginning to feel pretty 'alien' myself, when confronted with these
> difficulties ! Could I ask you, Jim, to explain in some detail for a
> 'noob'
> some myself, to what you were referring when you referred to
'setting up
> [the "official" version of OOo] with alien' <snip>
>
> 2006/12/14, jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I Use Ubuntu as well, though I haven't switched to the new version
> just yet.
> I've always used the 'official' version of OOo, setting it up with
alien.
> The first few Ubuntu Openoffices did not include the thesaurus,but if
you
> wanted to go to the trouble, you could load the Ubuntu OpenOffice
> Thesaurus
> separately.
>
> That made me wonder what else they'd been messing around with, so I
> only use
> the official version now. That way, when I have a problem, I can get
help
> from the users group.
>
> JimW
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