Suppose you need to install GUI related package, that will let you use the product.
2012/5/22 brian mullan <bmullan.m...@gmail.com> > http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#notes > > The above lets you download an Ubuntu, Debian etc installation. > > However, at least for Ubuntu there seems to be a problem. > > I have a headless server. > > I've downloaded the Linux x86-64 DEB > http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html > > But that will only install onto a server with a Desktop unless I'm missing > some information. > > Once downloaded I do the following: > > tar xvfz > Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz > which extracts everything to an ./en-US directory the en-US directory > contains several dozen .DEB files > > dpkg -i <all the .deb files> > > that will emit errors concerning gui/desktop requirements so it appeared to > me that those can only be installed on a server with a desktop and NOT on a > headless machine. > > Maybe I missed some documentation but I know you can start openoffice in > headless mode once its installed BUT in this case how can you install it on > a headless machine in the first place? > -- Thanks & Best Regards, Yan Ji
