Open Office upgrade??

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 23:41 -0500, Alan Dacey Sr. wrote:
> On Saturday 13 February 2010 10:50:21 pm Jerry Lapham wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 February 2010 09:24:44 pm Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > > > I downloaded OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz and
> > > > don't see any .debs -- just .rpms.
> > > 
> > > Try
> > > http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.2.0/OOo_3.2.0_Linu
> > > xI ntel_install_en- US_deb.tar.gz
> > 
> > OK, I got it.  How do you install it?  You don't have to run each
> > individual .deb, do you?  I'd like to be able to install it in /opt or
> > somewhere (like you can with firefox) so I can fall back to Karmic's 3.1
> > version if there's a problem.
> > 
> > 	-Jerry
> 
> Real easy.
> Untar it into a folder, navigate there in the terminal and type 
> 	sudo dpkg -i *.deb
> It will do them all.  I did that in the past and it was installed under /opt 
> so you will be have two versions on your machine.
> 
> If you want to go whole hog then follow the directions here:
> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=27484  
> 
> -- 
> Alan

Someone went and changed things... why am I surprised?? Just about every
how-to I've read seems to have a slightly different slant, but your's
got me the closest... until the last step. The package I downloaded
had .deb files. I did the dpkg thing. But it had an "upgrade" script
rather than an "install" script. I executed that, and it worked to
re-install what I had just installed, thinking it was upgrading. I'll
take that. But a newbie would be blown away like a feather. 

I'm surprised that support for Jaunty would be blown away so quickly
though. What the Linux community needs is standard set of directories,
which would really take the load off of each distro to maintain all
packages. "Why can't we all just get along?" 
:) Ric
 
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