OpenOffice 2.0 - Manual Installation

[Alfred Vahau]

Thanks this worked. Now from the shell I type oowriter for instance and 
openoffice1.1 is fired up.
This is not what I expected as  I have just installed openoffice2.0 via 
the dpkg -i *deb command.

Alfred,


>conver first all the rpm files and tell dpkg to install it
>$ sudo alien *rpm
>$ sudo dpkg -i *deb
>  
>




Ryan Escarez wrote:

>On 10/28/05, Alfred Vahau <Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>I downloaded OpenOffice 2.0 and unpacked it into a temporary directory.
>>When I attempted to install the rpm
>>packages, it failed and instead a message appeared pointing to the use
>>of alien program. This program was
>>ran on the rpm packages and converted them to debian ones with extension
>>deb.
>>
>>I run the dpkg --install <package_name> but this failed to find the package.
>>I also tried use apt-get install but this failed to find the packages
>>too. I looked up the sources.list file under /etc/apt
>>and found that the reference was to packages on the CD Rom (in my case
>>the Warty distribution).
>>I commented out that line and inserted a line with the path to the
>>temporary directory containing the openoffice2.0 files.
>>
>>It looked like this:
>>
>>deb /path/to openofficef files
>>
>>I executed the apt-get and dpkg --install commands again but these fail
>>to find the packages.
>>
>>How can I tell apt-get to look in the temporary  directory and install
>>the openoffice2.0 files?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>as you download OO.o for manual installation you don't have to use
>apt, instead tell dpkg to do it, in the first error you are trying to
>install a rpm package wich is need to be converted into deb files. the
>following work around will solve your day.
>
>conver first all the rpm files and tell dpkg to install it
>$ sudo alien *rpm
>$ sudo dpkg -i *deb
>
>
>hth
>
>--
>Ryan Escarez
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