Actually, they didn't actually claim what distro they've spun off. Although they explicitly support RHEL from about 5.1 up, EPEL is also good for CentOS, and for all I know, SuSe.
But pbone is, like EPEL, extensions outside the main distro trunk. When I searched it for OpenOffice-writer, what I got were version 2.x releases for ArkLinux and for TurboLinux. You wouldn't want any of those. Actually, I have serious misgivings about running OpenOffice in Amazon's cloud. For one thing, I have serious misgivings about running ANY X GUI-based stuff from the cloud, between the firewall considerations and the likelihood that performance is likely to be disappointing. It's rather telling that they didn't include it as part of their base repo. If I wanted cloud-based document editing, I'd be more inclined to go with Google Docs and leave the cloud for webapp servers and back-office batch processes. Tim On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 15:55 -0500, Mike Rathburn wrote: > I have to do a manual install of an RPM package (openoffice-writer) on an > Amazon Linux AMI. The package isn't available via Amazon's yum > repositories. I know that Amazon Linux is enterprise linux (EPEL), per the > info here: http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/ > > > > The RPM will be grabbed from here: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3 > <http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3&limit=1&srodzaj=3&dl=40&search=openo > ffice.org-writer> &limit=1&srodzaj=3&dl=40&search=openoffice.org-writer > > > > When I do a 'uname -a' on the machine, I get: > > > > Linux ec2-187-77-143-124.compute-1.amazonaws.com 2.6.35.14-106.49.amzn1.i686 > #1 SMP Fri Dec 2 18:20:01 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > > Can anyone provide some insight as to what RPM version I should be pulling? > I'm suspecting some version of CentOS. Is there another place to look to > get more detailed info on what I have? > > > > -MikeR > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
