Re: openoffice install problems
Originally Posted by
stoat
what you described sounds to me like the Java installer method of installing OpenOffice. I for one am interested in how your effort turns out because I am wondering if I could install it for my Linux From Scratch system.
The Java installer runs fine, that's how I installed OpenOffice 3.3.0 several months ago (I wanted to avoid the large number of extra dependencies that LibreOffice brought in). The version I installed was a tarball of RPMs, and rpm was used for the installation. So you should be able to install it on LFS if you have Java and either rpm or rpm2cpio installed.
I just installed OpenOffice 3.4 beta 1 the other day, which I downloaded from here, and it works fine. It doesn't seem to support Java 7, but that's OK since I also have Java 6 installed just in case (and the OpenOffice installer gives you the option of installing a Java 6 runtime anyhow).
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