On Mon, February 27, 2012 12:10, nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
Ljubomir Ljubojevic writes:
Those packages do not need to stay in testing repo. All that is necessary is for several people use packages from testing repo and report that they are working without issues to the Centos-devel mailing list in this thread: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-September/008159.html , and packages will be moved to Extras repo.
Hi,
Several people have tested this successfully. You can even get slightly newer packages from here: http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/libreoffice/el6/x86_64/ that Karanbir hasn't yet got around to putting in testing (there's a *-release rpm there, too). I would advise against using libeoffice.org supplied RPMs at this stage as RHEL are also getting ready to release LO 3.4.5 in EL6 that will (hopefully) gracefully upgrade my packages.
For what it is worth, I am running LibreOffice 3.5.0 installed from rpms provided by the document foundation and having no troubles with write or calc. I do not really use the other parts so on those I cannot comment.
In fact, the experience is far better than I had with OpenOffice-3.3, which was so bad I went back to the 3.2 version provided with CentOS.
On 02/28/2012 09:42 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
On Mon, February 27, 2012 12:10, nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
Ljubomir Ljubojevic writes:
Those packages do not need to stay in testing repo. All that is necessary is for several people use packages from testing repo and report that they are working without issues to the Centos-devel mailing list in this thread: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-September/008159.html , and packages will be moved to Extras repo.
Hi,
Several people have tested this successfully. You can even get slightly newer packages from here: http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/libreoffice/el6/x86_64/ that Karanbir hasn't yet got around to putting in testing (there's a *-release rpm there, too). I would advise against using libeoffice.org supplied RPMs at this stage as RHEL are also getting ready to release LO 3.4.5 in EL6 that will (hopefully) gracefully upgrade my packages.
For what it is worth, I am running LibreOffice 3.5.0 installed from rpms provided by the document foundation and having no troubles with write or calc. I do not really use the other parts so on those I cannot comment.
In fact, the experience is far better than I had with OpenOffice-3.3, which was so bad I went back to the 3.2 version provided with CentOS.
I have been having OpenOffice 3.2 for EL 5.x in my repo since it's release, by unpacking it in my repo folder, but I think desktop integration needed some work.
It is much easier to install on several systems from repository. And I created virtual packages to install localized environment that pulls all packages I wanted. And update is much simpler from repository, that is why I am trying to force people to use it that way so we can move it to regular repository.
Ljubomir Ljubojevic writes:
I have been having OpenOffice 3.2 for EL 5.x in my repo since it's release, by unpacking it in my repo folder, but I think desktop integration needed some work.
It is much easier to install on several systems from repository. And I created virtual packages to install localized environment that pulls all packages I wanted. And update is much simpler from repository, that is why I am trying to force people to use it that way so we can move it to regular repository.
So Ljubomir, you have unpacked the official rpms and made a repo out of them? That might work, with a meta-package that would pull in the core stuff.. Still not very elegant. I really wish LO people would make a proper repo … I'll mention this in my letter to Santa this year.
In the meanwhile we're probably going to have LO 3.4.5 in 6.3, so it's nice. Apparently 3.5.0 was not quite ready for (enteprise) prime time.
On 03/05/2012 04:45 PM, nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
Ljubomir Ljubojevic writes:
I have been having OpenOffice 3.2 for EL 5.x in my repo since it's release, by unpacking it in my repo folder, but I think desktop integration needed some work.
It is much easier to install on several systems from repository. And I created virtual packages to install localized environment that pulls all packages I wanted. And update is much simpler from repository, that is why I am trying to force people to use it that way so we can move it to regular repository.
So Ljubomir, you have unpacked the official rpms and made a repo out of them? That might work, with a meta-package that would pull in the core stuff.. Still not very elegant. I really wish LO people would make a proper repo … I'll mention this in my letter to Santa this year.
In the meanwhile we're probably going to have LO 3.4.5 in 6.3, so it's nice. Apparently 3.5.0 was not quite ready for (enteprise) prime time.
Yes, I did that around CentOS 5.2 or 5.3, when Openoffice 3.1 came out, then upgraded to 3.2. I still have them in my repository for EL 5.x.
Main reason was that OpenOffice installer from tar was not working, and tar for Serbian language was lacking desktop integration for RHEL/Fedora, so I had to unpack and install via yum/rpm manually using complicated commands I had to write down to remember, then separately adding Serbian Language support, and I hated that.
Issuing "yum install ooo3-sr" to install it along with Serbian language support was much easier :D
-
James B. Byrne -
Ljubomir Ljubojevic -
nux＠li.nux.ro