On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Using native installers was a goal so that the installer cobbled together
for the 1.1.x releases did not have to be maintained. It proved to be
problematic with the way it sucked resources. So, I guess the question is
Who can we get to maintain
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 06:13 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Using native installers was a goal so that the installer cobbled together
for the 1.1.x releases did not have to be maintained. It proved to be
problematic with the way it sucked
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
I can understand your situation. I was hoping that you had the resources.
Too bad you do not. Maybe someone else who would like to see the old
installer back will read our exchange and step in. I guess that is the best
we can expect.
I'll
On Thursday 27 October 2005 10:35, Rich Shepard wrote:
Check out http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=7951. I downloaded
the Slackware pkg and installed it with pkgtool and it even gives you
Openofficeorg on your KDE Desktop.
Bill Wells
Recently I downloaded the huge tarball
Recently I downloaded the huge tarball for 2.0 and today I tried to install
it. Unfortunately, the installation directory has nothing but RPMs, and that
does no good on a Slackware system.
Up through 1.1.5, the linux/English download provided a
distribution-agnostic installation directory.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Get the setup guide. Link is on www.openoffice.org or from the project in
my sig.
OK. It must be quite different from earlier versions, then.
Rich
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Rich Shepard wrote:
Recently I downloaded the huge tarball for 2.0 and today I tried to
install it. Unfortunately, the installation directory has nothing but
RPMs, and that does no good on a Slackware system.
Up through 1.1.5, the linux/English download provided a
distribution-agnostic
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Jacqueline McNally wrote:
Eugenio posted to the webmistress today:
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To let you know that a package for the Slackware Linux distribution exists
for OpenOffice 2.0 in English.
It is available on http://www.linuxpackeges.net
I have tested it and it works fine, you
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Get the setup guide. Link is on www.openoffice.org or from the project in
my sig.
Huh! Just out of curiosity, what was broken with the installation
procedures used from pre-1.0 through 1.1.5?
I don't mind using rpm2tgz as long as it
