That's the reason that since OOo2, I just wait until it shows up in the Debian repository. It used to work with alien but even that fails now.
I'm willing to test if someone has a place to put up a real tgz version, like the old ones. Richard. On 12/21/06, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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. -- Xfce on PCLinuxOS, OOo 2.0.2 (en_GB). Direct mail to teaman is not opened; if necessary, email realmail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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