If you are looking for a Slackware compatible OpenOffice.org, grab the one 
from http://www.linuxpackages.net 

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Bill Wells

On Thursday 02 February 2006 19:50, Alexandro wrote:
> There are .deb distributions too, I think that the suggestion is more to
> make it easy to download.
> check it here:
> http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/debian/deb
>ian/pool/OOO680/
>
> On 2/2/06, Jem Berkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I really think you would do the Linux user base a favour by offering,
> > as you did before, generic binary installations (through some kind of
> > setup program).  I had been using that method throughout the 1.x
> > releases and it was a reliable way to install and maintain OpenOffice
> > no matter what the distribution was.
> >
> > The reason I suggest this is that not every distribution uses RPM.  By
> > offering your main Linux download based on RPM, you imply support for
> > mainstream distributions only.  Someone like myself who uses
> > Slackware, and from time to time "no distribution" misses the previous
> > distribution-neutral setup program.
> >
> > Jem Berkes
> > University of Waterloo
> >
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