On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 13:04 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > I have OOo2.2.1 and 2.3-dev running on my machine along with the > OOo that comes with Ubuntu itself. > > These instructions use RPMs, because up until 2.3-dev that was > what was available (no DEBs). I don't know how to deal with DEBs, > to be honest; I've never needed to. > > I know that most people say to use alien to convert PRMs, and > IIRC the official OOo Setup Guide explains that, but Daniel > Carrera gave me the following instructions long ago and they work > for me, so I keep using them. I've annotated his instructions a bit. > > Prerequisite: be sure rpm2cpio is installed. I found it by > installing the RPM package available through Synaptic. > > 1. Extract the OOo download from the file browser GUI. (I just > double-click and open it using Archive Manager and extract the > contents that way.) The PRM files are in a subdirectory of what > you get when extracting the download. > 2. Open a terminal and 'cd' to the directory with all the RPM files. > 3. Run this: > for i in *.rpm; do rpm2cpio $i|cpio -idm &> /dev/null; done > > This creates a new directory called "opt" that contains the OOo > final installation directory. You can move the OOo directory > somewhere, or even leave it in your home directory (which is what > I do). I make a desktop launcher for OOo2.3-dev and I've also > added it to the right-click menu for ODT and other ODF files. > Double-clicking an ODT file still launches Ubuntu's version of > OOo, but that's not a problem for me so I have no interest in > attempting to change this behaviour. > > --Jean
Thanks for this. It certainly is an easier way. The other way is more for installing separate "sandbox" versions of linux without double booting into an alternate distribution. Now I've got two versions of fiesty running just so I can have ooo-dev-2.3 and the normal one. Oh well, maybe I should go the whole hog and upgrade the "other" ubuntu to gutsy, just to live on the edge. If I've already got a sandbox to play in, maybe I should do something more adventurous with it. And then, maybe not. :-> Shelagh
