Issue 121832 - Feature Request - Please setup a Yum Repo as an installation method
Summary: Feature Request - Please setup a Yum Repo as an installation method
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 4.0.0-dev
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Normal with 2 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2013-02-27 15:57 UTC by Timothy M. Butterworth
Modified: 2013-03-03 22:01 UTC (History)
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Description Timothy M. Butterworth 2013-02-27 15:57:15 UTC 
All,

Please add Yum as an installation option to host the RPM's. This will allow any user with any Linux Distribution that offers compliance with Linux Standard Base LSB, RPM and YUM the option to configure the YUM repo for installation of Apache OpenOffice.

This can be implemented so there is one repo for both 32 and 64 bit options which is always updated to the latest stable version of Apache OpenOffice to keep Linux users up to date.

Many other FLOSS projects are hosting their own Yum repo's including, Virtualbox and Google with some proprietary members doing this as well Adobe.

Bottom line: The Yum Repo would allow for furthure acceptance and usage or Apache OpenOffice in its native state without modification from Linux Distributions. Supporting Linux Distributions can be encouraged to simply include the Yum Repo as an addon repo for their distribution. Updates can be distributed through yum so users who's distros already utilize YUM receive updates in the same method as they do now. Mirror directories may expand to organizations that already host Yum repos.

This may also assist in improving the number of active developers as many distros may work on patches and RPM fixes centrally at Apache OpenOffice instead of Distro specific patches.