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On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, at 04:02 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I suspect that a lot of your concerns and more besides are shared by the > LO devs and in some cases by the companies they work for. > > My guess is that is part of the reason we don't already have 1-click > installers. We already have at least 2 systems that work (repos and > copy&paste from instructions) so there is nothing driving them to produce > some hasty bodge in the "release early and release often" style. > Another, slightly wilder, guess is that you might need to do 1 extra step > = such as unzipping a container-file (as we can do with .odt files). > > This whole topic, about 1-click installers, is a "chinese whisper" (not > sure why the Chinese get the blame for it as we all do it). It would be > better for one or 2 of us to contact the devs to initially find out > 1. If there is a plan or vague idea to create 1-click installers for the > 3 or 4 ways of packaging such things for Gnu&Linux (maybe and Bsd?) > If there is then 2 follow-up questions arise > 2. How imminent are such plans? Soon or years away? > 3. Are compiled binaries going to be available? (perhaps in .deb or .rpm > form for people to repackage for various distros such as Slackware (or > use tools such as the alien thing)) > > At the moment we are all just making guesses based on something that 1 > person thinks they might vaguely remember having heard or read about some > time ago. With no proof or links to anything to suggest that vague > memory has any basis in fact. Errr, that 1 person was me so i deeply > apologise for that and for not intervening sooner [hangs head in shame] > [shuffles feet] > > Apols and regards from > Tom :) > > > > ________________________________ > From: Girvin Herr <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 0:35 > Subject: Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: > (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??) > > > <snip /> > > Of course, I could always compile the source > code, but that can be another can of worms and it takes a lot longer to > compile LO than to just repackage the already compiled binary. I am not > sure what your definition of "distro" is in your reply above. It could > mean the LO distro or the Linux distro, in my case Slackware. > > <snip /> > > Generally, such package installers need to be run as root and that is a > no-no with me. > > <snip /> > > Take care. > > Girvin Herr > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Anthony Easthope [email protected] References 1. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
