Installing OpenOffice from OpenOffice Website
Rick Bilonick
rab at nauticom.net
Fri Mar 28 17:24:21 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 11:50 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> Res wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone tried installing OpenOffice from the OpenOffice website
> >> (rather than using the Fedora version)? I have the Fedora 8 version
> >> installed but would like to go back to using the non-Fedora version. In
> >> the past, I have always run into problems installing the non-Fedora
> >> version (but could always get it running). I would appreciate hearing
> >> peoples' current experiences and recommendations.
> >>
> >
> > I have always only used their version since fedora also hack out bits of
> > openoffice code they dont want in for their as per usual political
> > BS, so using OO directly from OO you actually get the complete full
> > OpenOffice, it alsoc performs more smoothly I've found.
> >
> >
> No x86_64 version AFAICT.
> Would you install with openoffice's java, or not?
>
How do you install the latest ooo on Fedora 8? Every time I've tried to
install in the past something got messed up, like being listed in the
menu. I never know which interface rpm to install? Gnome?
Rick B.
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