OpenOffice 1.1.1

[Jeremy Brown]

John Nichel wrote:

> Robin Laing wrote:
>
>> John Nichel wrote:
>>
>>> Robin Laing wrote:
>>>
>>> http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.1/index.html
>>>
>> This link only provides the tar.gz, no rpm's.
>>
>
> Why can't you install it from that?
>
> #> tar -xzf OOo_1.1.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
> #> cd OOo_1.1.1_LinuxIntel_install
>
> as root
>
> #> ./install
>
> as regular user
>
> #> ./setup
>
If you're dead set on having an RPM, you might procure checkinstall:

$ yum install checkinstall

then

$ tar -xzf OOo_1.1.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
$ cd OOo_1.1.1_LinuxIntel_install

as root

$ checkinstall ./install

Follow the OpenOffice install directions as well as the Checkinstall 
directions, and you'll end up with OpenOffice installed, in the RPM 
database, and a separate RPM in case you want to distribute to other 
machines.

Jeremy