[K12OSN] OpenOffice 1.9.xx for k124.2.1EL?

[Burroughs, Henry]

John,

Do you actually have installable 1.9 RPMS for 4.2.1EL (Aka Centos 4.1)?  I couldn't install the FC4 ones, and i'm trudging through rebuilding the FC4 source package (and having to fix all the dependencies).  I might be able to help some.

Henry


-----Original Message-----
From:	John Baillie [mailto:jbaillie at stmarys-school.org]
Sent:	Tue 8/30/2005 9:29 AM
To:	Support list for opensource software in schools.
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Subject:	Re: [K12OSN] OpenOffice 1.9.xx for k124.2.1EL?
Eric Harrison wrote:

> John Baillie wrote:
>
>>>
>> I have OO 1.9.118 installed on a test box and thought I'd take a whack
>> at getting the oo specific lts_config scripts to work on EL.
>>
>> Yeah I know... but it's too late to switch OS's.
>>
>> I looked for the source rpms for the updated lts_config files but only
>> found ltsp_config-0.0.32-k12ltsp.4.4.0.src.rpm
>>
>> Can you pass them on to me Eric?
>>
>> I had been looking at George Kocke's userprep
>> to push out OO 1.9.xxx but I'd like to see if I can get this to work.
>
>
>
> Attached are my patches. These will *probably* work with OO 1.9.118, but
>  may require a small amount of tweaking on the pathnames.
>
>
> Usage is pretty straight-forward:
>
> 1) save the attached patches on the server, say in /root/ooo-patches/
>
> 2) apply the patches:
>
>     cd /root/ooo-patches
>     patch -p0 -N < oo-writer-doc.patch
>     patch -p0 -N < oo-calc-xls.patch
>     patch -p0 -N < oo-impress-ppt.patch
>
>
> 3) done!
>
>
>
> -Eric
>
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Thanks Eric,

I updated to the latest version of OOo and changed the paths in your 
files to match EL but it failed.
I gave my self a crash course on diff and patch, but I ended up manually 
entering the changes in the OOo regestry.
I dug deep and googled hard on how to disable the Regestration process 
to no avail so I added the .openoffice.org.2 from a configured test 
users /home to /etc/skel

Not sure if the following is the best method but it worked for me:

It's a pain to remove all the beta rpms

The following will help speed up the proccess.

1. rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org > OOrpms

(might want to read OOrpms now and make sure these are the files you 
want to remove)

2. cat OOrpms | xargs rpm -e

It might look like it stalled but it takes about a minute or so to complete.

John