[CentOS] Open Office 1.9.x

Wed Jul 13 07:05:56 UTC 2005
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.
>