Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 70435
Add new local linux installation instructions to http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/instructions.html#linux
Last modified: 2013-08-05 14:15:55 UTC
I have found these instructions incredibly helpful for doing an installation of openoffice. the advantage of using these include: 1. don't touch your existing OOo installation 2. related to above, don't touch your distro's settings 3. don't be dependent on your distro's packaging of new OOo releases 4. install quick and easily without the fear of "borking the system" 5. in debian, do not deal with rpm packages 6. in rpm-based distributions, don't have to upgrade from the distro-distributed package to openoffice-distributed package (hence no playing around with distro-speficic settings) etc. The link to the instructions is: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=26173&highlight= Instructions (copy paste): Some people miss the old installer which allows non-root, per-user installation. This type of installation is nice if you don't have root privileges or if you want to have multiple versions of OpenOffice.org installed concurrently. Well, the same is possible with the .RPM installer. Also, you can vary this procedure to install OpenOffice.org system-wide on a non-RPM system using root privileges. Prerequisites 1. Skill: command-line use 2. Program: rpm2cpio 3. Program: cpio 4. File: OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz (contains .RPMs) Where do you get rpm2cpio if you do not use an RPM system? Your distribution may carry it, and look for the rpm package. For example, Debian and Slackware does both carry rpm2cpio in their respective rpm packages. Procedure: installing locally as non-root 1. Download OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz to ~ 2. Start a shell (also called a terminal) 3. mkdir ~/ooo; cd ~/ooo 4. tar xvzf ../OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz 5. for i in `ls OOO680_m3_native_packed-2_en-US.8968/RPMS/*rpm`; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -ivd; done 6. (optional) rm -rf OOO680_m3_native_packed-2_en-US.8968 7. (optional) rm ~/OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz Procedure: running locally as non-root ~/ooo/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice Procedure: associating with file types as non-root This depends on your system, but if you use Nautilus, try this: 1. In Nautilus, browse to the file you want to open. 2. Select the file. 3. Click File->Open with other application. 4. Specify ~/ooo/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice as the program. Procedure: installing system-wide as root #1 Your Linux distribution may have an updated OpenOffice.org 2.0.0 package available. If It's not in your standard repository, it may be in a testing repository or available through a users' website. Procedure: installing system-wide as root #2 To convert from .RPM to your native package format, try alien or rpm2tgz. Procedure: installing system-wide as root #3 To install system-wide on non-RPM system, simply follow the local installation procedure and move ~/ooo/opt to /opt. Also, (using rpm2cpio) install the appropriate system integration package from OOO680_m3_native_packed-2_en-US.8968/RPMS/desktop-integration.
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).
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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
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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