On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:21:39 -0500 Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 03:02 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:42:16 -0500 > > Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: > > > >> On 01/23/2013 02:10 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > >>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:46:59 -0500 > >>> Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 01/23/2013 09:53 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:30:50AM -0600, Art Pederson wrote: > >>>>>> Hope someone can help Doug out. > >>>>>> Begin forwarded message: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> From: Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> > >>>>>>> Date: 22 January, 2013 9:57:56 PM CST > >>>>>>> To: Art Pederson <ve5...@sasktel.net> > >>>>>>> Subject: Latest Open Office install > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Hi, Art-- > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I sent a message to the mailing list, but have gotten no answer. > >>>>> I haven't found any thread started by you on this subject. > >>>>> > >>>>>>> I downloaded OO, in a compacted file-- > >>>>>>> Apache...x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz > >>>>>>> I had never seen an rpm packaged inside a tar file before, but > >>>>>>> I unzipped it, and now I have rpms all over the place, as well as > >>>>>>> a directory of Apache advertising. > >>>>> If you downloaded from http://www.openoffice.org/download then there is > >>>>> no advertising at all, this must be the readme and license. > >>>>> > >>>>>>> Is there any way to simply install this thing? I never had this > >>>>>>> problem when I downloaded it many months ago, but now I > >>>>>>> want to put it on another machine, and I have this mess. > >>>>> It depends on the Linux distribution you are using. I assume you are not > >>>>> using Ubuntu or any other distro using DEBs, as you downloaded RPMs. > >>>>> Some Linux distro require manual tweaking, so please let us know the > >>>>> distro you are using. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Regards > >>>> I was not aware that PCLOS seems to have OO in the repos now-- > >>>> it is called ooobasis* so I will try and delete all the stuff that I > >>>> downloaded > >>>> from Apache and try and install this and see what happens. > >>>> I will report back. > >>>> > >>>> --doug > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >>>> > >>>> > >>> My quick check suggests that PCLOS uses LibreOffice. While it is > >>> possible to install Apache OpenOffice in parallel with LibreOffice, my > >>> experience with Ubuntu is that if one wants a quiet life without the > >>> necessary tweaking one should entirely remove LibreOffice _before_ > >>> installing Apache OpenOffice. In Ubuntu this is best done by using > >>> Synaptic (their package manager) to remove libreoffice-core*. In PCLOS > >>> this might be done with Yum, but your experience with PCLOS will direct > >>> you better than my supposition. > >>> > >>> You should then download an RPM version from > >>> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html > >>> and install using the instructions at > >>> http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html#linux-rpm > >>> > >> As I mentioned in my last post, it appears that PCLOS finally has OO in > >> the repos. > >> I already had downloaded the archive at the link you posted, and that's > >> what > >> started this problem. You need to get rid of the tar.gz and just have ONE > >> rpm. that installs the whole thing. But hopefully I can find and remove > >> the > >> mess that this download created and load from Synaptic (not YUM). > >> Will report results. > >> > > I honestly do not think PCLOS uses Synaptic, if it uses RPM packages. > > > I have posted another message, set just before this one, that indicates that > PCLOS does NOT, in fact, have OO in the repos. However, I guarantee you > that PCLOS uses Synaptic--I have been using this distro for almost 2 years > and that's the only means I know of to install something that's in the repo. > What's not in the repo, I can install from an RPM. or from source, and I > have done both. > I accept the OP's statement that PCLOS uses Synaptic; online information is confusing about this. Some information I haveseen suggests that PCLOS's Synaptic is set by default to delete RPM files, but that there is a setting which overrides this on a case by case basis. Some information on this is given at this URL, which may now be out of date in its OpenOffice references http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-pclinuxos-2010-kde-p4 -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
