Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | Add new local linux installation instructions to http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/instructions.html#linux | ||
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Product: | Infrastructure | Reporter: | towsonu2003 <towsonu2003> |
Component: | Documentation | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
Status: | CLOSED OBSOLETE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | Trivial | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues |
Version: | current | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
Developer Difficulty: | --- |
Description
towsonu2003
2006-10-15 00:03:05 UTC
First things first: You have identified a page that is not under the control of either the doc project or the on-line help team. Second, most of your suggestions are covered by the Setup Guide ( http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE.pdf ) which you should review. Third, try component Installation >First things first: You have identified a page that is not under the control of
>either the doc project or the on-line help team.
As the author of that article, I offer them permission to use, modify, and
distribute it.
> most of your suggestions are covered by the Setup Guide this type of installation is deeply buried in the documentation (where I still can't find it, even with the link you provided)), and absent from http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/instructions.html#linux (an online documentation file) where most people will look for it. http://download.openoffice.org/????/instructions.html#linux is what you see first off when you're downloading OOo. this bug: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=44102 documents my claim, as the reporter says and I quote: -------quote----------- Where are the install files? RPMs are useless to me. I have Linux systems that are 5 and even 10 years old that have been continuously updated. No way any RPM system will ever grok such bastard children. The OO 1.0 install worked just fine, I need the same thing for OO 2.0 ---------quote ends----- apart from requesting a new feature, what he is saying is that he couldn't *find* the instructions I posted (the forum link). set to owner of www component should be submitted to the "www" component. Tried three times but cannot change component. Process seems to be broken. Can someone please submit this issue new to the correct component? I would suggest to include a link to http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/#12 to the download web page changing owner reassign Reset QA Contact to new default OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 is outdated and no longer supported. Install instructions for Apache OpenOffice on Linux can be found here: http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html |