Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
If this is something new in this developer build, then it may be a bug
rather than something to be documented. Did the stable 2.0 release work
like this? If not, then I suspect a problem in the new build.
I installed several developer versions before the 2.0 release and didn't
notice a problem. The latest Ubuntu release, 5.10 (Breezy) included OOo
"2.0" but it was really 1.9.129. But it was installed automatically by
the distribution.
When 2.0 came out, I tried to install it. For a Debian-based Linux
distribution like Ubuntu, the normal way is to unpack the .tar.gz file,
which produces a bunch of .rpm files, which would presumably install
easily on an .rpm based distribution like RedHat, Fedora, or Mandriva.
There is a utility called 'alien' that will take the .rpms and produce
.deb packages from them. These can then be installed into a Linux
distribution like Debian or Ubuntu. Unfortunately, I ran into a problem
converting or installing these for the 2.0 release.
Later, I found .deb files that someone had converted by a more manual
process, and those worked OK. But that was somewhat different too.
Maybe the reason this one caused trouble is because it created a whole
new directory in my home folder. The earlier ones might have used an
existing one that already had the correct permissions. What we probably
need is for the developer folks to make this process a bit more
friendly, and then produce some documentation for it.
A wiki page would be good ... then it could be changed easily if the
next release changes the ball game.
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Jan Wilson, Belize
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