[kubuntu-users] Re: OOo 2.1

[FX Fraipont]

Art Alexion wrote:
> On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:26, D. R. Evans wrote:
>   
>> (There does seem something not-quite-right in the fact that I
>> downloaded and installed the Windows version of OOo 2.1 yesterday
>> [with a five-year-old OS], but can't do the same with Kubuntu [with a
>> six-month-old OS].
>>     
>
> Not only are we talking apples and oranges here, but that may have a bit to 
> contribute to windows instability as compared to linux.  The more 
> windows-like we make the guts of this OS, the more it could resemble windows 
> instability.
>   
I am a new Kubuntu user, after having used SuSe for 8 years. I did 
exactly that yesterday (install the latest OpenOffice 2.1), and it all 
went without a hitch.

I used alien to convert the rpm's to deb's and then installed with dpkg. 
OO 2.1 is now installed in /opt/openoffice.org2.1.

By the way, I've just installed firefox 2.0 and copied it to 
/opt/firefox and it does not freeze anymore when there's java or flash. 
Don't really know why by the way.

fx