[Techtalk] dealing with debian

[Jacqueline McNally]

At 07:44 AM 01/05/2003, Emma wrote:
>Hey all:
>
>I'm looking for some other folks that rely on package managers for their
>software installations. For somethings like Apache, Procmail, fetchmail,
>mutt, vim, etc package managers are lurvly! But i'm finding it frustrating
>for other things like: Open Office (getting the package manager to work)
>and Mozilla (getting the latest version).

In relation to OpenOffice.org, I guess it depends whether you want to go 
the debian way or obtain the compressed tar file from OpenOffice.org.

The debian package is currently only for Intel x86 machines. I receive the 
posts from the debian-openoffice at lists.debian.org list and the recent posts 
have not been associated with difficulty in installing. The developers and 
users on the debian-openoffice at lists.debian.org are very helpful, so if you 
are experiencing difficulty with the debian package install I would seek 
assistance here, or on IRC #debian-oo. See: 
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/openoffice.org.html

In the past I have seen posts about not having Java installed. I think you 
need at lease JRE 1.3. It's easier to have this installed before instlling 
OpenOffice.org. You can get JRE for Linux from: 
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html

Initially, I did experience difficulty installing OpenOffice.org and I 
think it was because I did not follow the installation instructions. I 
can't remember where I tripped up, but it may be related to where 
OpenOffice.org places files where I did not expect them. I had a similar 
experience with the dictionaries.

Instructions for installing OpenOffice.org from tar.gz:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html

Instructions for downloading and installing dictionaries:
http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html

Colleagues have compiled from source and said it was easy, but I have seen 
a few posts on the developers list that indicate that some people have 
experienced problems. You can post to the users at openoffice.org list to 
obtain assistance with this.

If you do download from OpenOffice.org, there are Md5 checksums for the 
english version.

Hope this helps.

All the best
Jacqueline McNally
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/users/zenryaku/

Community Contact, Australia/New Zealand
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