Anybody using OpenOffice 2.04 (Linux) under Xandros?
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From: felmon on 27 Jan 2010 08:22 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:31:01 +0000, M.I.5Ÿ wrote: > Well, he spelt 'spelled' wrong for a start. simply a difference between British and American English. nothing 'right' or 'wrong' here and thorough inconsequential unless the author is trying to conform to the one standard or the other. Felmon
From: BillW50 on 27 Jan 2010 10:56 BillW50 wrote: > 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. Same thing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dirname: extra operand `Documents/OO/update' Try `dirname --help' for more information. Press <ENTER> to continue... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The readme states: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is a wide variety of Linux distributions, and even within the same distribution there may be different installation options (KDE vs Gnome, etc.). Some distributions ship with their own �native� version of OpenOffice.org, which may have different features from this Community OpenOffice.org. Sometimes you can install the Community OpenOffice.org alongside the �native� version. However, it�s usually safer to remove the �native� version before installing this Community version. Consult the documentation for your distribution for details of how to do this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is no documentation for this distro, except for the user's manual that covers only brief comments about the pre-installed software. There is a add/remove application. But it is only for add/remove applications that you install from their server. And removing pre-installed software is not allowed. Pretty sad, eh? -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03)
From: AJL on 27 Jan 2010 11:41 BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> 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> The spell checker works fine on OpenOffice 2.04 on my Xandros powered 2G Surf. However I have reinstalled from the F9 option. I have never used the DVD for recovery though I doubt that would make a difference in the spell checker problem. Sorry for the delay I just got around to checking it last night. Right now I'm trying this Windows Agent newsreader using Wine on a new Ubuntu 9.10 installation. If you get this it worked... ;)
From: BillW50 on 27 Jan 2010 14:34 AJL wrote on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:41:42 -0700: > BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> 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> > > The spell checker works fine on OpenOffice 2.04 on my Xandros powered > 2G Surf. However I have reinstalled from the F9 option. I have never > used the DVD for recovery though I doubt that would make a difference > in the spell checker problem. Sorry for the delay I just got around to > checking it last night. > > Right now I'm trying this Windows Agent newsreader using Wine on a new > Ubuntu 9.10 installation. If you get this it worked... ;) Well that is good to hear. Was Open Office pre-installed on the 2G Surf, or did you get it from the Asus server? I found an Open Office update through Add/Remove, but I don't see any changes whatsoever. Even the version number is the same. I am using the same DVD recovery disc all of the time. Maybe that is the problem. I have other recovery disc, so maybe I should try one of those. I could swap out this 4G SSD too. But all I have for spares are 8G and 16G SSD. Kind of overkill for Xandros. I also have 2GB of RAM and Xandros can only see 1GB. I wouldn't think that would screw up the spell checker. But I guess you never know until you put less in the machine. Good luck with Ubuntu 9.10. Hopefully you can find all of the drivers. For me, the WiFi and the webcam is the hardest to get working. Although there is no application that uses the webcam except Skype under Xandros anyway. So I guess no real loss there. Although lots of applications uses it under Windows. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03)
From: BillW50 on 27 Jan 2010 14:51
BillW50 wrote on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:34:26 -0600: > I also have 2GB of RAM and Xandros can only see 1GB. I wouldn't think > that would screw up the spell checker. But I guess you never know until > you put less in the machine. Just popped in 256MB of RAM real quick. No difference. Just applications seem to open a tad slower. But that is about it. I'll try a 16G SSD and a new recovery disc next and see what happens. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03) |