On 2005-10-21, Olivia Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've spent about 3 hours trying to install version 2.0 on my office > linux system. Because your current version uses the incredibly > primitive *.rpm installer, I tried to hack it into the 21st century by > changing the *.rpm model into a *.tar.gz one. I don't and we won't, > here, use the dreadful distributions of linux that you seem to have > chosen to support...
You don't need to use an rpm-based distribution in order to use rpm. I've installed OOo-2.0 on Vectorlinux (slackware based) and Xandros (Debian based) using rpm and it works fine. It only complained that "/bin/sh" wasn't installed and simply adding the "--nodeps" switch to the rpm command line allowed it to install just fine. > What seem to be dozens of shared libraries are unavailable on our > systems. We probably won't ever seek to find and load all of these > libraries to have them available just for OpenOffice as OpenOffice > isn't enough of a reason to trash our systems. Similar libraries were > supplied and linked in earlier versions. Why not in this one? If > the libraries were supplied and installed as they were installed and > linked in the earlier versions, we would be pleased to use this free > software which now appears to be worth no more than the purchase > price. You don't mention what distribution you're currently using, or what shared libraries couldn't be found. IIRC, rpm will add the OOo library directory to your /etc/ld.so.conf file and then run ldconfig for you; perhaps that's all that needs to be done on your system? -- John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
