[CentOS] Open Office 1.9.x

[Mark Jarvis]

I like it! I like it!

-mj-

Ajay wrote:

> Faced the cross-dependency problem when trying to install 1.9.113 on
> CentOS4-i386.
> 
> After fooling around for sometime I downloaded and installed "smart"  
> tool from
> http://smartpm.org. Then dumped freedesktop and redhat menu RPMS from 
> "desktop
> integration" folder to "RPMS" folder and ran "smart install *". That did 
> the
> job nicely
> 
> Rgds
> 
> Ajay
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis at pvmail.maricopa.edu>:
> 
> 
>>
>> I have the -104 download tucked away in my download directory--I'll take
>> a look at it.
>>
>> Thanks for the tip!
>>
>> -mj-
>>
>> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:36 -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote:
>>>
>>>> I immediately ran into problems--
>>>>     1) The installation instructions were for OO 1.x.
>>>>     2) The download appears to be source RPMs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I downloaded the version 1.9.104 (May 20th) binary RPMs for i386.
>>> Build system on the RPMs is reported as up-smb2.germany.sun.com.
>>>
>>> Now I'm runing these binaries on Fedora Core 3 x86-64 no less.
>>> It's a stock x86-64 install, except I do manually swap out Firefox
>>> x86-64 for Firefox i386 (so all my i386 plug-ins work).
>>>
>>> So I'd say if a "plain Jane" Fedora Core 3 install (with limited Fedora
>>> Extras / RPM.Livna.ORG packages) work, I don't see why it won't on
>>> CentOS 4.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Has anyone added OO1.9.113 to CentOS?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would assume anything that runs on Fedora Core 3 would run on CentOS 4
>>> without issue.  CentOS 3 might be an issue though.
>>>
>>> As far as the source RPMs, maybe those are included because you need to
>>> build it from source.  It could be a Java Runtime Engine (JRE)
>>> requirement that might be taken out of newer builds in favor of a GPL
>>> Java stack like GCJ.  I'm running Sun JRE 1.5.0_02 (i586 I believe) on
>>> my x86-64 system.
>>>
>>> But the RPMs didn't list them as a dependency.  In fact, I want to say
>>> it was actually installed with the RPMs.  Now thinking back, it might
>>> have installed Java with the RPMs in a single ".sh" file download and
>>> subsequent run.
>>>
>>> That might explain it the best, why I had no problems.
>>>
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