Update Open Office on Feisty Fawn
Bruce Marshall
bmarsh at bmarsh.com
Thu Oct 18 00:43:31 UTC 2007
On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Gunawan wrote:
> Hi All,
> As we know that Feisty Fawn comes with Open Office 2.2.0.
> I would like to upgrade to 2.3.0 so I have download it from openoffice.org.
> Tar balls file contain many rpms. as advice by someone on ubuntu forums
> I run alien command to convert it
>
> sudo alien -d --scripts *.rpm
>
> and then install it with dpkg
>
> sudo dpkg -i *.deb
>
I wouldn't think you'd ever get it to work by converting the RPM's. A single
program, usually, but that many RPM's, not likely.
But why didn't you download the DEB files at this page?
http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/index.html
See the small print under the Linux download.
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