Comments on: OpenOffice 2.1 on Ubuntu (Kubuntu)

By: steven

steven — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:47:58 +0000

Hey thanks for the Comments Peter!

I’ll have to give that command another try the next time I go through the exercise.

Cheers!

Steven

By: Peter Shannon

Peter Shannon — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:32:22 +0000

Doooh the line should have looked like this:

fakeroot alien -d â€“-scripts openoffice.org-core10-2.1.06.i586.rpm

By: Peter Shannon

Peter Shannon — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:29:59 +0000

I ran this after converting all the files with the command alien described in the tutorial to reproduce the only package which complained (no warning with the –script flag):

fakeroot alien -d –script\ openoffice.org-core10-2.1.06.i586.rpm

then continued following the original instructions exactly. The install worked fine and OO seems to work too.

By: Gk@gnome

Gk@gnome — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:14:47 +0000

Hey thanks for the guide. I tried another earlier, and it wasn’t working out. This one worked quite nicely. I did get that message: “Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package openoffice.org-core10: postinst postrm
Warning: Use the â€“scripts parameter to include the scripts.” But so far I have experienced no problems because of that. Thanks again!

By: Bones

Bones — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:58:23 +0000

Nice guide, but unfortunately my system keeps telling me it wants to autoremove openoffice.org-writer.

I’ve tried removing it, purging it and reinstalling it, but it still keeps bugging me!

Any ideas? :)

Cheers

By: Mike Liu, CSMS

Mike Liu, CSMS — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:45:50 +0000

OpenOffice 2.1 on Ubuntu 6.10…

Ubuntu 6.10 comes pre-installed with OpenOffice 2.0, the Linux replacement for Microsoft Office. Although OpenOffice 2.0 is quite good and has proven to be fairly compatible with MS Office documents, version 2.1 has added even more great tools — including…

By: steven

steven — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:49:06 +0000

Didn’t work to untar the file??? Wow that would definitely be a show stopper. What was the error? Sounds like something really simple like either a corrupted download that wasn’t finished or misspelled filename… But I’m just guessing without any hints.

What happened?

By: jim

jim — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:12:12 +0000

Didn’t work for me. Starting at step 13, 14 and 15.

By: Fuzzy Eric

Fuzzy Eric — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:33:03 +0000

For step 15.1, try (q.v. http://bodmas.org/blog/?p=523 )

fakeroot alien –script –keep-version -d *.rpm

possibly prefixed with a sudo (although this shouldn’t be necessary if you’ve downloaded the RPMs into one of your directories).

By: Hugues

Hugues — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:08:17 +0000

Hi,

Nice tutorial, thanks a lot for linking my original instructions on OpenOffice 2.0.

Keep up the good work,

Hugues