On 1/11/13, Jonathan Simona <jssimona2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks so much for the replies! Unfortunately I do not know how to build > and run AOO and can't seem to find out because the wiki link seems to be > down.I'm not sure if this problem is only occuring for me, but I will > attempt to build when wiki comes back up.
While you do that, you can download the source: http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html > > Wiki's error message: > A database error has occurred. Did you forget to run maintenance/update.php > after upgrading? See: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Run_the_update_script > Query: SELECT page_id,page_len,page_is_redirect,page_latest FROM `page` > WHERE page_namespace = '10' AND page_title = 'Extension_DPL' LIMIT 1 > Function: LinkCache::addLinkObj > Error: 1286 Unknown table engine 'InnoDB' (localhost) > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile > <arie...@apache.org>wrote: > >> Hello Jonathan, >> >> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:04:22PM -0800, Jonathan Simona wrote: >> > Hello everyone, my name is Jonathan Simona and I currently am attending >> the >> > university: Cal Poly Pomona in California as a Computer Science major. >> > Currently, I am taking a class on Software Engineering, in which we are >> > required to join an open source project and submit two "non-trivial >> > modifications or additions" such as bug fixes or adding a feature over >> the >> > next two months. >> > >> > Even though I have decent knowledge about programming, I actually have >> > no >> > experience in fixing bugs nor the knowledge of how to go in and submit >> > patches that will fix/modify bugs/features on open source projects. >> > Since >> > this community seemed very friendly towards new users, I was wondering >> > if >> > someone would be willing to show me the ropes and possibly point out >> > two >> > novice-like, yet still non trivial, things I could possibly work on. >> > >> > I thank everyone for their time in reading this email and to anyone who >> is >> > willing to reply. >> >> As Andrew told you, the first step is to checkout the source from trunk, >> and try to get your first build. You can find information on the >> Building Guide: >> >> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO >> >> I'd recommend you use git-svn instead of subversion. Also get a disk >> with enough space: the source tree is ca. 2.6 Gb, and it grows up to ca. >> 15 Gb in a non-pro build with symbols. >> >> >> Regards >> -- >> Ariel Constenla-Haile >> La Plata, Argentina >> > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
