Richard wrote:
To the best of my knowledge they decided that the "native format" for
Linux is rpm.
So that's all that's available, except for Pavel Janik's site. But the
debs won't install for me on Debian Sid. Must be something personal
with my installation.
I'll keep trying. Going to look for the rpm2tgz. Maybe that will help.
Thanks,
Richard.
On 12/21/06, Russell Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Terry wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>> Terry wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know how and where to get a Linux tarball instead of the
>>> rpms?
>>>
>>
>> Or Tarbell? ;-)
>>
>> http://www.s100-manuals.com/Harte-manuals/Tarbell/Tarbell Cassette
>> Interface.pdf
>>
>> Actually, I thought the download from OOo was a tarball.
>
> There was an outcry when OpenOffice moved from a universal
installer to
> the rpms which, as you say, are compressed into a tarball.
>
> The outcome of the issue filed was that the software itself would be
> available for installation from a tarball.
>
> IOW, it is supposed to be possible to install simply by
uncompressing a
> tarball - in the same way that Mozilla products can be installed.
>
> This other tarball (not to be confused with whatever you are talking
> about) does not contain RPMs; it contains the software files, ready
for
> action and rarin' to go.
>
> Well, it would do if it exists, which is the first question in
> question. :-\
>
> The second question is *where* is it?
>
>
Hi Terry
If it's any help, on gentoo I use rpm2tgz (after unpacking the download
tarball) and it proceeds to put everything where it belongs in /opt/
I realise that is not a direct answer to your inititial question.
HTH
Russell
Yes, the decision was made to use RPMs and that lead to this issue:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=44102
The establishment dug its toes in but indicated that a tarball
installation would be possible.
It may be that we have to create the tarball ourselves. The official
response is as incoherent as usual:
[quote]
Beginning in src680 m188 it is very easy to create installation sets as
tar.gz (non-Windows) and zip (Windows). Additionally it is possible to
create already installed products in the solver of instsetoo_native. You
only have to use the environment variable PKGFORMAT, that from now on
additionally supports "archive"
and "installed". Or you make a call like
dmake openoffice_en-US PKGFORMAT=archive
in the shell, in which you create installation sets.
[/quote]
That is supposed to make sense! :-(
Later, the same message suggests that a tarball is available for
extraction as *ready-to-use* software:
[quote]
A problem is, that this new product do not contain any system
integration. But
therefore it is now possible to use something like:
1. download openoffice.tar.gz
2. tar xvzf openoffice.tar.gz
3. cd openoffice
4. ./soffice
[unquote]
Pavel Janik's site seemed the most likely source but I do not see such
tarballs there.
Rpm2tgz is not available for all distributions. It is, I understand, a
script, so it should be fairly portable.
There is also an unrpm script: http://marklesh.com:8000/UnRPMOpenOffice
But, unless the official responses on that issue mean something else,
there should be *ready-to-use* software already available in tarball form.
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