Re: A couple of OpenOffice questions

[Joanmarie Diggs <j-diggs comcast net>]

Hi Krister. 

No need to apologize for the "newbiish questions."  Heck, I'm figuring
this stuff out as I go along.  I think many of us are.  

Yes I would uninstall your current OOo first.  When I installed OOo
2.0.4 RC1 this was not necessary.  However, on another machine, I just
tried installing 2.0.3 from openoffice.org over the 2.0.3 that comes
with Edgy and wound up with some broken packages. <frown>

So uninstall what you have first.  Also install fakeroot and alien.

Then download the installer from openoffice.org and extract it.  CD into
the RPMs directory of the extracted files.  Then:

1. fakeroot alien -d *.rpm
2. wait <smile> the above takes a while
3. sudo dpkg -i *.deb
4. cd desktop-integration
5. sudo dpkg -i *.deb

That should do it.  Nothing needed fetching.  

Good luck and take care.
Joanie

> Could you please give me instructions on what libraries and such that
> OOO needs if installing from source? Also, should i uninstall the Ooo i
> have before trying to install from source or what gives there?
> Do you know if the packages Ooo depends on are available or if i have to
> fetch them too as source? and lastly, can i configure and install the
> source from the graphical environment or is the text console the best
> alternative?
> Sorry for all the newbiish questions, it's been a while since i played
> with this OS.
> /Krister