--- Olivia Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wouldn't want their standard installation either. > I want software > to reside where I put it and there to stand alone -- > untangled into > the system. I don't/won't load, for example, > Netscape or Firefox or > RealPlayer or Opera (trash anyway) into their > intended directories > because it screws up the system and means that one > must go back to the > beginning and reload a whole swat of crap software > into the > burrowed-in system every time one upgrades the > system. > > One of the nice issues with OpenOffice was that its > intallation > program to v1.1.5 allowed for installations into a > directory tree that > I wanted and not one conceived by some > bureaucratic-programmer-fool. > If I can hack OpenOffice 2 to stand alone in > directory > /usr/local/OpenOffice2, I'll run it. Otherwise, > I'll run version > 1.1.5 until it falls so far out of date that I pick > up whatever new > and clever is going from some other source. I > don't mind moving > through software that doesn't oblige conforming to > the sloppy models > that are so prevalent in Windows and evermore, now, > in Linux. Linux > is being f.....d by fools... RedHat started that > process and I think > it's a shame. It may be a conspiracy to destroy the > development! > I've stayed over the years with Slackware because it > has been least > obligatory in following some fool's model of a > system. It has stayed > pretty much "traditional" and nothing that I've seen > come beyond > traditional is any improvement at all. > > I expect that I will hack on the SlackBuild > installation and organize > it into a stand alone directory tree in > "/usr/local/OpenOffice2", tar > it and then distribute this across the machines I > run in my labs. I > don't want my systems to look like yours. > > On 10/22/05, CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri October 21 2005 03:23, + Olivia Jensen > wrote: > > > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > > > 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, > > > > Please contact your Linux distributor and ask them > to contribute some of the > > money you paid for the product or the equivalent > in their employees time to > > the OpenOffice.org project so that their > installation mechanism can be > > supported. this is what the RedHat, Novell/SuSE > companies have already done. > > Or you can step up and help also. > > > > Please reply to users@openoffice.org only > > > > -- > > CPH : openoffice.org contributor > > > > Maybe your question has been answered already? > > > http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ > > > > > -- > Le bonheur d'être moi.... > > Olivia Jensen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear Ms. Jensen: While it is awfully nice of you to share your thoughts with those of us who use OpenOffice, I'm sure there are many people in your immediate circles who would be grateful for your incisive evaluation of their undertakings and I feel guilty that we are taking up your time. DB __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
