On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:04:30AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 05:35 pm, many eyes noted that Vincent Chen wrote: [...] > > If RPM is not available, will it cause any problem if I use OO's > > installer? [...]
> No > > OpenOffice.org1.1.0 installs beautifully like this:- [...] Actually, I *did* get problems when using the RPMs available for Mandrake 9.1 (or was it Cooker at the time? It's been a while). Not on the Mandrake machine itself, but my home directory is mounted from a file server and I use it on several different machines: Solaris 8/Sparc, Red Hat Linux 7.3, Aurora Sparc Linux 1.0 and Mandrake Linux 9.1. After I installed the RPMs, OO would crash on the RHL 7.3 machines when using it as that cross-platform user. I tracked it down to something in the personal config files, but wasn't able to find out the exact reason. In the end, I ended up dumping the RPMs and installing from the same official installer I had used on the RHL 7.3 machines as well. After that, I was able to use OO on all machines. Hence, in a multiplatform environment, not using the RPMs might be of advantage. Cheerio, Thomas -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!"
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