On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 16:23, Jacob Albretsen wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:48 pm, Gary Thornock asked of the Jedi Counsel:
> > I'm looking for RPMs for OpenOffice to install on Red Hat 7.3.
> >
> > I found some RPMs for Red Hat 8 at freshrpms.net, but the
> > dependencies are horrendous.  There's about zero chance of getting
> > those to work.  (apt wanted to update over a hundred packages, and
> > remove 115 more.  The packages to be removed included things like
> > KDE.  Not too likely...)
> >
> > Does anyone know of a good source to get RH 7.3 RPMs?
> 
> Question has pretty much been answered, but I will add that I installed it 
> (1.0.1) on Red Hat 7.3 using the tar.gz file and running the setup script.  
> Did a really nice job over the previous ones I installed on Mandrake 8.2 (OO 
> ver 1.0).  It even added menu items to the KDE menu.  Nice if you are into 
> KDE like I am.  ;)

The thing about the redhat 8.0 rpms is that they've tweaked openoffice
to use the new fontconfig system and Xft.  You probably won't get decent
fonts out of the tarball.

Michael


> 
> Oh wow, 1.0.2 is out......  *Jake goes to download*
-- 
Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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