On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:30:21 -0000, Christopher O'Brian <chriso...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On the download page I wasn’t able to input the language preference, system used, or anything as the drop down menus for this were blank!
for the community: javascript-based input boxes have never been very reliable. where has gone the old plain link to <http://www.openoffice.org/download/other/>? it seems to employ an easier script and contains other valuable information. it would be quite precious in the original poster's case. the only substitute i have found is the link 'Alternative download mirrors (binaries)' pointing to sourceforge's list of files. that list is good but not at all user-friendly, especially when compared with the </download/other> page. also, the link's name is misleading because it actually provides the same sourceforge-chosen mirror. the link provided within the <noscript> tag, <http://www.apache.org/dyn/aoo-closer.cgi/openoffice/>, is not very reliable too. for my location, it suggested the <http://apache-mirror.rbc.ru/pub/apache/openoffice/> mirror, which does not host the binaries. to sum up, i think what is desirable is an alternative download page based on plain html or server-side script. also, the link to <http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/> should be accompanied by some instructions like these: from the list of files at the bottom of the page, navigate to the folder <version>/binaries/<language> and download the file Apache_OpenOffice_<version>_<os>_<platform>_<installation_type>_<language>.<ext> where <version> is the version number (eg 4.1.1), <language> is the code of your language (eg en-US), <os> is the name of your operating system (Win, Linux or MacOS), <platform> is 'x86' for 32-bit computers and 'x86-64' for 64-bit ones, <installation_type> is 'install' for a full installation set and 'langpack' for a language pack (for linux there are also suffixes '-deb' and '-rpm' depending on the distribution you use) and <ext> is the file extension (eg '.exe'). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
