[gobolinux-users] Re: OpenOffice 2.0.2, binary package

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 5/7/06, Tom <tqueste at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The only tarballs I found for OpenOffice 2.0.2 are :
> - Source
> - Binary with a lot of rpms
>
> As the compile instructions are heavy, I wonder if there is a binary
> package somewhere for OO 2.0.2 (latest release)	or is there a
> way to use those RPMs ?

Weird. I never noticed that OO 2 was RPM-only. Well, having RPM and
CPIO installed, we can extract them:

wget http://YOUR_FAVORITE_MIRROR/OOo_2.0.2_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
aunpack OOo_2.0.2_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
cd OOB680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9011
cd RPMS
for i in *.rpm ; do aunpack -X . ; done
cd opt/openoffice.org2.0
mkdir bin
cd bin
ln -nfs ../program/{sbase,scalc,sdraw,simpress,smath,swriter} .
cd ../..
mv openoffice.org2.0 2.0.2
sudo mkdir /Programs/OpenOffice
sudo mv 2.0.2 /Programs/OpenOffice
sudo SymlinkProgram OpenOffice 2.0.2

Hopefully this will work! I did all of this over ssh so I couldn't
test it in the end, and I don't think my connection can handle a
remote OOo (and I couldn't find binaries for 2.0.2 for Linux-PPC to
test it here).

-- Hisham