Anybody using OpenOffice 2.04 (Linux) under Xandros?
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From: AJL on 27 Jan 2010 20:30 BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >AJL wrote on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:33:25 -0700: >> BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >> >>> Was Open Office pre-installed on the 2G Surf, >>> or did you get it from the Asus server? >> >> It was pre-installed. > >Oh was it Thunderbird that you downloaded? Yes I downloaded TB. The Surf just has an email icon that opens Firefox to the web based Gmail site. That's what you get with the economy model. >I'd be interested in the [downloaded to the Surf] ones that worked. Some I remember are Sea Monkey, Wine, Kmail, Knode (posted here several times using it), and FBReader. I finally got into trouble after downloading an errant app and couldn't fix it so I finally had to do the dreaded F9 reset and everything went *poof*. And after all that work (fun?) too... It's been stock ever since. >I really believe all 701, 702, and 900 Xandros DVD >recovery disc are all the same and other models might be as well). My Surf recovery disk says 2G Series Linux Recovery CD Rev 1.0 dated 11-20-07. For comparison the disk has a 'boot' and 'p701L.gz' folders plus 3 small (0, 4, and 6 byte) files. That may be a clue as to if they are all the same or not. >How fast does it connect to the WiFi? My Eee PC Surf netbook WiFi is very slow. It boots in 25 seconds but there is another 30 seconds or so after that before the wireless connects. My Eee PC 1000HD netbook: XP: Boots in 35 seconds wireless 5 seconds later. Ubuntu: Boots in 30 second wireless already accessed when desktop chimes occur. My Acer 5516 Notebook: Vista: Boots in 55 seconds wireless working 5 seconds later although the icon still shows it disconnected. The icon doesn't update until several seconds later, one of those weird Vista things I guess. Ubuntu: Boots in 35 seconds and wireless also immediate like on the 1000HD. (I have my Grub bootloader set at 5 seconds but that's not included in the above times.) BTW The OpenOffice on Ubuntu 9.10 is version 3.1 and the spell checker works... ;)
From: felmon on 28 Jan 2010 11:45 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:56:09 -0600, BillW50 wrote: >> 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. sorry but I am not sure what this all refers to. one method is: you download the .deb file first, then go to the commandline and do sudo dpkg -i file.deb is this the point where you are getting the errors? (sorry, I may have missed a stretch of the thread.) Felmon
From: S. Fishpaste on 28 Jan 2010 11:14 I should have mentioned that the installations of Ubuntu that I've done on the ASUS netbooks, boot-up into GUI in about 5 seconds. Very fast wireless as well.
From: BillW50 on 28 Jan 2010 12:28 felmon wrote on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:45:36 -0600: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:56:09 -0600, BillW50 wrote: > >>> 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. > > sorry but I am not sure what this all refers to. > > one method is: you download the .deb file first, then go to the > commandline and do > > sudo dpkg -i file.deb > > is this the point where you are getting the errors? (sorry, I may have > missed a stretch of the thread.) Hi Felmon! No I didn't try that. I'm going to try that now. How I did it, was I extracted the package and ran the script called update which looks like this: #!/bin/sh GNOMEXCMDS="/usr/bin/gksu" GNOMECMDS="/usr/bin/gnome-terminal /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-terminal" KDEXCMDS="/usr/bin/kdesu /opt/kde/bin/kdesu /opt/kde?/bin/kdesu" KDECMDS="/usr/bin/konsole /opt/kde/bin/konsole /opt/kde?/bin/konsole" MISCCMDS="/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator /usr/X11/bin/xterm /usr/openwin/bin/xterm" TITLE='OpenOffice.org update' # # Usage # Usage () { if [ "`basename $0`" = "update" ]; then echo "Usage: `basename $0` [<path to OpenOffice.org installation>]" fi echo exit 2 } make_tempfile() { # Always prefer mktemp when available if [ -x "$MKTEMP" ]; then "$MKTEMP" "/tmp/$1.XXXXXX" else TMPCMD="/tmp/$1.$$" touch $TMPCMD echo $TMPCMD fi } # # make_command_file - generate a command file to pass to xterm & co # run_in_terminal () { TMPCMD=`make_tempfile 'OpenOffice.org-Online-Update'` cat >> $TMPCMD cat >> $TMPCMD << \EOF if [ $? -eq 0 -a ! -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then echo echo "Press <Enter> to close this window" read DUMMY fi EOF cat >> $TMPCMD << EOF rm -f $TMPCMD EOF chmod a+x $TMPCMD exec "$@" -e $TMPCMD } # # run the command line passed as positional parameters either via # gksu/kdesu or via su command in a terminal emulator. # elevate() { TITLEOPT="" GEOMOPT="" case `basename $XTERM` in "xterm") TITLEOPT="-title" GEOMOPT="-geometry " ;; "gnome-terminal" | "konsole" | "x-terminal-emulator") TITLEOPT="--title" GEOMOPT="--geometry=" ;; esac case `basename $SU` in "kdesu" ) # --caption SUOPT="-t" ;; "gksu" ) # --title SUOPT="" ;; "su" ) SUOPT="- root -c" ;; esac ( echo "echo The application \"$@\" will update your OpenOffice.org installation." echo "echo" echo "$SU" "$SUOPT" "$@" ) | run_in_terminal "$XTERM" "$TITLEOPT" "$TITLE" ${GEOMOPT}+300+300 } update_pkg() { ADMINFILE=`make_tempfile 'OpenOffice.org-Online-Update-admin'` cat >> $ADMINFILE << EOF action=nocheck conflict=nocheck setuid=nocheck idepend=nocheck rdepend=nocheck mail= EOF PKGLIST="" for i in `cd $1; ls -d *`; do pkginfo -q $i && PKGLIST="$PKGLIST $i" done pkgrm -n -a $ADMINFILE $PKGLIST pkgadd -n -a $ADMINFILE -d $1 $PKGLIST rm -f $ADMINFILE } # # main # CMD="`basename $0`" BASEDIR="`dirname $0`" ABSBASEDIR="`cd $BASEDIR; pwd`" if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then SU="su" XTERM="" else # define search order depending on the desktop in use .. if [ "`uname -s`" = "SunOS" ]; then XPROP=/usr/openwin/bin/xprop GREP=/usr/xpg4/bin/grep MKTEMP=/usr/bin/mktemp else if [ -x /usr/X11/bin/xprop ]; then XPROP=/usr/X11/bin/xprop else XPROP=/usr/bin/xprop fi GREP=grep MKTEMP=/bin/mktemp fi # use desktop specific tools where possible, but prefer X11 su over terminal emulators if $XPROP -root | $GREP -q '^KWIN_RUNNING'; then SULIST="$KDEXCMDS $GNOMEXCMDS" XTERMLIST="$KDECMDS $MISCCMDS" else SULIST="$GNOMEXCMDS $KDEXCMDS" XTERMLIST="$GNOMECMDS $MISCCMDS" fi # search for the first available terminal emulator for i in $XTERMLIST; do if [ -x $i ]; then XTERM=$i break fi done # we prefer gksu or kdesu if available SU="su" for i in $SULIST; do if [ -x $i ]; then SU=$i break fi done fi if [ "$CMD" = "update" ]; then if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then [ -d $1 -a $# -eq 1 ] || Usage elevate "$ABSBASEDIR/$CMD" else if [ -d "$BASEDIR/RPMS" ]; then # do not use --hash as the control sequence to edit the current line does not work # in our setup (at least not with kdesu) rpm -v --freshen `find "$BASEDIR"/RPMS -name '*.rpm'` elif [ -d "$BASEDIR/DEBS" ]; then dpkg --install --selected-only --recursive "$BASEDIR"/DEBS elif [ -d "$BASEDIR/packages" ]; then update_pkg "$BASEDIR/packages" fi fi else Usage fi -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03)
From: BillW50 on 28 Jan 2010 12:38
felmon wrote: > one method is: you download the .deb file first, then go to the > commandline and do > > sudo dpkg -i file.deb > > is this the point where you are getting the errors? (sorry, I may have > missed a stretch of the thread.) Okay the package is called "OOo_3.1.1_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz". And that is too long to type so I renamed it to "OOdeb.tar.gz". Then I ran: sudo dpkg -i OOdeb.tar.gz And deb reported the following: /home/user/My Documents/OO> sudo dpkg -i OOdeb.tar.gz dpkg-deb: `OOdeb.tar.gz' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing OOdeb.tar.gz (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: OOdeb.tar.gz -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03) |