Mathias Bauer wrote: > Marcin Miłkowski wrote: > >>>> Another glitch is that >>>> under Unix systems, you cannot update your dictionary extension (well, >>>> you can, but you're not told you can! - automatic update doesn't try to >>>> download a new version and install it for your account). >>> >>> If the dictionary is installed for a single user, the update should work >>> (at least in Sun builds). If the dictionary is installed for all users, >>> it must be downloaded and installed separately with admin rights. >> >> If you are using Sun builds under Linux, you have to be root to install >> the build (rpm doesn't normally work for non-root users), and, as a >> result, the bundled dictionary extensions are installed for all users >> and as an individual user, you're not told there are newer versions. > > I will ask the UNO developers about that. > >> So the update doesn't work for the individual user - which is not very >> convenient, as admins don't normally run application software under root >> accounts. As a result, they won't even know there are newer versions of >> the bundled extensions. > > The update inside OOo doesn't, yes. Updates can be installed by an > external process (not by OOo itself), so there is another option: OOo > could start this external process and try to get super user rights for > it. This should work on all modern consumer Linux distributions.
I forgot to mention: when an extension is installed via extension manager, OOo does exactly this: the extension will be run in an external process. I don't know if the same happens when extensions are updated, but that should be possible, I assume. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "nospamfor...@gmx.de". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
