Hi Rory, Am 02.09.2018 um 09:58 schrieb Rory O'Farrell: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 07:51:37 +0100 > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > >> On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 22:59:32 +0100 (WEST) >> Pedro Lino <pedro.l...@mailbox.org> wrote: >> >>>> On September 1, 2018 at 10:15 PM Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: >>>> I am now using Opera 55 on Xubuntu 18.04.01 54 bit. Out of interest I >>>> accessed the download site and it wanted to download Linux 64-bit (x86-64) >>>> (RPM), whereas it should have been Linux 64-bit (x84-64) (DEB) >>>> >>>> My User Agent details are >>>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) >>>> Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36 OPR/55.0.2994.44 >>>> >>>> On a similar Xubuntu 18.04.01 64 bit machine, using Firefox I am offered >>>> OO Linux 64-bit (x86-64) (DEB) >>>> >>>> On that machine User Agent details are >>>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko /20100101; >>>> Firefox/61.0 >>> Thank you for the feedback Rory! >>> That confirms that it's not a Firefox limitation and when Distro is not >>> specified it will default to RPM. >>> Does that make sense? >>> In any case it's probably safe to say that the majority of desktop Linux >>> users are running Ubuntu or a flavor/derivative (and those that aren't know >>> which package to get!) >>> >>> Regards, >>> Pedro >> It is a good point that one might expect distro users to know what package >> they want. >> >> This used be so, but experience on the en-Forum suggests that many less >> experienced users are now moving to linux distros as an alternative from >> other operating systems, and expect it to work "out of the box"; they do not >> bring any technical knowledge or to their use of computers. >> >> If this problem is not fixed, it will escalate; we should consider what >> causes it and try to find a solution. > > I should say that on the en-Forum we have had a small number of cases > recently of (new?) linux users downloadiung the wrong (RPM or tar.gz instead > of DEB) OpenOffice version. We had put this down to unfamiliarity on the > User's part, but it may have been an early indication of this problem. After > detailed enquiries we were able to redirect them to the correct OO version, > but it would be best if the problem could be solved so that the version > choice was automatic (as it used be).
As it used to be? The logic for downloads is in here: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/download/download.js It has "always" been this way, but maybe we can now find a way to enhance the detection? Regards, Matthias > > > - > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >
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