[K12OSN] Open Office problem!

[Graham Lauder]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 20:15:58 Joseph Bishay wrote:
Apologies if this appears twice, sent from the wrong email


> Hello,
>
> I hope everyone is doing well!
>
> I'm *almost* done completely revamping the technology in our
> organization and a final hurdle happens to be Open Office.  I hung out
> in both #openoffice, #ltsp, and #centos but no solution was found (or
> I was met with stony silence in one of the channels).  In any case,
> I'm running K12LTSP based on Centos 5.2.  The stock OpenOffice
> installation is 2.3 and yum update shows nothing after that available.
>  The problem is that Office 2007 docx files are only recognized by OO
> ver 2.4 or higher.  I've tried to follow the instructions I've found
> online to download the appropriate tar file from OpenOffice, switch
> into the RPMS directory and run rpm -Uvh *.rpm.  However, I get an
> error as follows:
>
> # rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         java-gcj-compat >= 1.0.31 is needed by (installed)
> tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.3.el5.x86_64
>         java-gcj-compat is needed by (installed)
> xalan-j2-2.7.0-6jpp.1.x86_64 java-gcj-compat >= 1.0.31 is needed by
> (installed)
> xml-commons-apis-1.3.02-0.b2.7jpp.10.x86_64
>         java-gcj-compat is needed by (installed)
> xml-commons-resolver-1.1-1jpp.12.x86_64
>         java-gcj-compat >= 1.0.31 is needed by (installed)
> xerces-j2-2.7.1-7jpp.2.x86_64
>         java-gcj-compat is needed by (installed)
> hsqldb-1.8.0.4-3jpp.4.x86_64 java-gcj-compat >= 1.0.31 is needed by
> (installed)
> tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.1.0.3.el5.x86_64
>         java-gcj-compat is needed by (installed) bsf-2.3.0-11jpp.1.x86_64
>         java-gcj-compat is needed by (installed) bsh-1.3.0-9jpp.1.x86_64
>         java-gcj-compat >= 1.0.64 is needed by (installed)
> gjdoc-0.7.7-12.el5.x86_64
>         java-gcj-compat is needed by (installed) antlr-2.7.6-4jpp.2.x86_64
>         java-1.4.2-gcj-compat = 0:1.4.2.0-40jpp.112 is needed by
> (installed) java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-javadoc-1.4.2.0-40jpp.112.x86_64
>         java-1.4.2-gcj-compat = 0:1.4.2.0-40jpp.112 is needed by
> (installed) java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-src-1.4.2.0-40jpp.112.x86_64
>         java-1.4.2-gcj-compat = 0:1.4.2.0-40jpp.112 is needed by
> (installed) java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel-1.4.2.0-40jpp.112.x86_64
>         java-1.4.2-gcj-compat = 0:1.4.2.0-40jpp.112 is needed by
> (installed) java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel-1.4.2.0-40jpp.112.i386
>
> After that I thought it was some sort of conflict with the existing
> open office installation so I yum removed that one, repeated the above
> command, and received te same error.  Now I've got NO copy of open
> office and I have no idea what to do!
>
> What should I do?
>
> Thank you

Hi Joseph,

Which version did you download? With or without JRE included

3.0 uses a different install process to the 2.0 version.  Things are packaged 
differently..  If you went through the main page you would have got a file 
something like : OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz 

unpack it #tar -zxvf OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz

navigate into the folder it creates and you'll see four folders, a jar file 
and  two shell scripts.  One called "setup"

as root do ./setup and follow the instructions.

Alternatively, if your JRE is up to date you can click on the "Get more 
platforms and languages" link at the bottom of the download panel on the 
front page and you can get OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US.tar.gz . (I 
presume you're using 64 bit) This doesn't have the JRE installer included.  
The 32 bit will work as well.

The third alternative is Novell's version which is available from 
http://go-ooo.org.  If ooxml  filters is your issue then I would suggest this 
as the best option.  

Cheers
GL


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