OPEN OFFICE

[Erik Heil]

Hi their.  I don't see any reason why the new Openoffice.org wont' work
with the new and upcoming version of Ubuntu.  Some helpful notes though
that may  make you're experience a bit smoother.  Note that I don't run
Ubuntu at all at present on amy of my machines, but the advice applies to
all distros that are managed by a package management system.  You will
want to install into some place like /opt.  That way it will not be hard
at all to maintain two different versions of openoffice.org.  Next it is
very important to get a statically compiled version of openoffice.org 3.0.
The reason is that runtime dependencies may have changed and they might
not be in Ubuntu's reposirities. When Openoffice.org 3.0 becomes stable,
it will be a trivial task to remove you're local version and install it
via you're distrobution's packagement management system.  Also, it may be
more well integrated than the stock binaries. i.e. Ubuntu-specific patches
that may not be committed upstream.



On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, mike wrote:

> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:38:16 -0500 (CDT)
> From: mike <kb8aey at verizon.net>
> To: ubuntu <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: OPEN OFFICE
>
> Hi, does anyone have a link for the open office 3 beta? I am assuming this can be installed in intrepid and should work better with Orca.
> Mike.
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