Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > I tried installing OOo 3.x on an updated Centos 5 desktop (stock OOo > 2.x was there), It had the following problems: > > 1. Installation of JRE 1.6.0 step failed citing dependency issues > (relating to JRE 1.4 being required by OOo 2.x and the such) > 2. after installation, It did run as root ok. but as a user keyboard > practically freezes during the first run username entry requiring the > process to be killed. > > I need OOo3 calc for its solver functionality for staff scheduling. > > Any similar experiences? better yet any solutions (a la Go-oo)? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Rajagopal > > PS: I use digest mode to read posts in this list. Would appreciate a > direct reply to my mail with cc to Centos list. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > if the solver function in gnumeric would work http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/doc/sect-advanced-analysis-solver.shtml I would go with that, ooo3 is not very stable and easy to compile (it took my last build server about 5 hours) on CentOS and with 5.3 imminent I would tend to wait as openjdk has been introduced before trying to compile ooo3 for gnumeric 1.8 you can just add my temporary repo http://rpm.toshaan.be/repos/el5/x86_64/trpms-1.0-1.el5.x86_64.rpm please enable rpmforge If you need gnumeric 1.9, I can help with compiling, but I tend to like a stable spreadsheet -- Toshaan <toshlinux at gmail.com> - http://www.toshaan.be