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

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 5/7/06, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Addendum! Testing it over "ssh -X" right now. It seems to work!
But one thing was missing in the above steps. Change the "ln" line to:

ln -nfs ../program/{sbase,scalc,sdraw,simpress,smath,swriter,soffice} .

Maybe it's safer to link all of the binaries. In zsh that would be:

ln -nfs ../program/*(*) .

Well, it's slow as hell over ssh but OOo 2.0.2 seems to have just
opened here. Hooray! :) I will upload a binary package.

-- Hisham