Anybody using OpenOffice 2.04 (Linux) under Xandros?
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From: S. Fishpaste on 25 Jan 2010 22:46 On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:28:26 -0600, BillW50 in comp.sys.laptops wrote: > In news:slrnhlp2pv.on1.SDA(a)laptop.sweetpig.dyndns.org, > S. Fishpaste typed on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:02:39 -0500: >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:11:56 -0600, BillW50 in comp.sys.laptops wrote: >>> If so, does your spell checker work? I thought maybe my Linux >>> installation was corrupt, so I did a reinstall from the DVD. Nothing >>> changed at all. It claims everything I type is spelled correctly. >>> <sigh> >> >> Well one can download dict files from OOo you know. ;-D > > That may be, but installing them is a different matter. :-( Care to elaborate on what you've actually tried? Sorry if you mentioned it earlier on; I just started following. Sometimes and I have done this in the past; Upstream's versions are newer then the distro in use. Downloading and installing from the Upstream source tree sometimes is desired. First have you downloaded the dict files from OOo and installed them or just tried with your distribution files?
From: BillW50 on 26 Jan 2010 11:53 S. Fishpaste wrote on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:46:58 -0500: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:28:26 -0600, BillW50 in comp.sys.laptops wrote: >> In news:slrnhlp2pv.on1.SDA(a)laptop.sweetpig.dyndns.org, >> S. Fishpaste typed on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:02:39 -0500: >>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:11:56 -0600, BillW50 in comp.sys.laptops wrote: >>>> If so, does your spell checker work? I thought maybe my Linux >>>> installation was corrupt, so I did a reinstall from the DVD. Nothing >>>> changed at all. It claims everything I type is spelled correctly. >>>> <sigh> >>> Well one can download dict files from OOo you know. ;-D >> That may be, but installing them is a different matter. :-( > > Care to elaborate on what you've actually tried? Sorry if you > mentioned it earlier on; I just started following. > > Sometimes and I have done this in the past; Upstream's versions are > newer then the distro in use. Downloading and installing from the > Upstream source tree sometimes is desired. First have you downloaded > the dict files from OOo and installed them or just tried with your > distribution files? I downloaded OpenOffice 3.1.1 for Linux RPM and when I go to install it, I get the following error message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Checksumming... Extracting ... /home/user/My Documents/OO Install/setup: line 246: rpm2cpio: command not found cpio: premature end of archive find: usr: No such file or directory basename: missing operand Try `basename --help' for more information. /dev/pts/0 Error: Failed to extract the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) files. (exit code 7) Press <ENTER> to continue... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I tried downloading it again on a Windows XP machine running IE7. But the server doesn't like IE7. As it is slow and spotty. Trying again with Firefox and that is downloading fine so far. So I'll try installing it again. I also noticed that this Linux machine (which I just freshly reinstalled) only downloads at half of the speed of my Windows machines. Nor is Linux very good in the multimedia department. I see a big difference in performance on the machines that I run both Windows and Linux. Now I am getting: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ basename: extra operand `Install/update' Try `basename --help' for more information. dirname: extra operand `Documents/OO' Try `dirname --help' for more information. basename: extra operand `Install/update' Try `basename --help' for more information. Press <ENTER> to continue... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03)
From: felmon on 26 Jan 2010 12:18 On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:53:52 -0600, BillW50 wrote: > I downloaded OpenOffice 3.1.1 for Linux RPM and when I go to install it, > I get the following error message. I don't think Xandros uses the rpm package system. I think xandros uses deb packages. check if you have synaptic or apt-get installed; they will do the deed for you. at this point I prefer the deb stuff precisely because of apt-get (which is command-line). Felmon
From: felmon on 26 Jan 2010 12:21 On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:53:52 -0600, BillW50 wrote: > > I downloaded OpenOffice 3.1.1 for Linux RPM and when I go to install it, > I get the following error message. > I should add, you don't need apt-get, etc. if there is a deb package for OpenOffice then download the deb package. there are simple instructions for installing deb packages if you ask here or google on your own. Felmon
From: BillW50 on 26 Jan 2010 13:30
felmon wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:21:28 -0600: > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:53:52 -0600, BillW50 wrote: > >> I downloaded OpenOffice 3.1.1 for Linux RPM and when I go to install it, >> I get the following error message. > > I should add, you don't need apt-get, etc. if there is a deb package for > OpenOffice then download the deb package. there are simple instructions > for installing deb packages if you ask here or google on your own. Okay now downloading the deb version of OpenOffice. Site still doesn't like IE7 for downloading. While Firefox is still working okay with it. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03) |