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Re: [PLUG] OpenOffice 1.1 upgrade
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go to freshrpms.net and download apt & apt-dev for your distro and
install them. then type (as root)
apt-get update
apt-get -f install (this will make sure your RH install is good -
supposedly)
apt-get install symantic (this is an excellent graphical front end for
apt - which you can then use instead command line apt).
this works great for RH 8 & 9 and YDL 3. Don't know about other RH's.
As for getting OOo - if you have freshrpms and rawhide (i think that is
the name of it for x86 redhat - it's called something else for YDL 3)
setup in your sourcle list - then you can expirimental or unsupported
rpms too. I think this is where I got OOoB2 from - or maybe I downloaded
a precompiled tar ball from linuxppc.org or something. But in either
case - i find apt-get w/ freshrpms indespensible now.
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 17:22, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> I am a word processor user, not a file viewer like Toby, do enhanced
> usefulness would be a good thing. Well, I guess I will have to dig into
> upgrading freetype. There was an OOo channel for Red-Carpet which would
> have solved the dependency problems, but I haven't been ble to get most
> of the Red-Carpet channels for a month or so -- except for the
> Red-Hat-7.2 and Red Carpet channels, I keep geting download/server
> unavailable errors.
>
> W. Chris Shank wrote:
>
> >I disagree. OOo 1.1 has a lot of useful extra's mostly in the form of
> >taking less steps to accomplish a task. You may think of this as a minor
> >difference - but for my clients who are used to Word, telling them that
> >the equiv feature takes 2 menus and 4 mouse click for MS's one or two
> >click is not good. They do complain and I don't blame them.
> >I've been using OOo B2 for PPC for quite a while and have been very
> >happy with it.
> >
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 17:05, Toby DiPasquale wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I've been running OOo 1.0.2 on Red Hat 7.2 without problems. Tried to
> >>>upgrade to OOo 1.1 RC, and ran into compatibility problems with my
> >>>current 2.0.3 version of freetype. Seems OOo =>1.1 will require
> >>>freetype >= 2.0.6. I found some freetype 2.0.9 RPMs, but am having the
> >>>usual dependency domino effect. Question: any OOo users out there using
> >>>1.1 with an opinion whether upgrading is worth it under my circumstnces?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Unless you want the Flash export feature that bad, I'd say chill and wait for
> >>the release and upgrade then. Its not that much better than OOo 1.0.3 which is
> >>what I'm back to now. Of course, I only use it when people mistakenly send me
> >>something important in one of MS's formats so I don't know how typical my
> >>experiences are. HTH
> >>
> >>
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W. Chris Shank
ACE Technology Group, LLC
http://www.acetechgroup.com
(610) 647-1055
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