Need a little help here for an rpm centric user I put the latest OOo beta in my Ubuntu box and ran alien with -i to convert and install Everything seemed to go swimmingly . All files in the right place and installation exactly as would expect. However, the executable: soffice, won't run. I ran ls -la and soffice permissions read: --------- interesting Anyway I'm definitely a deb newbie, so I'm scratching my head a bit. Anyone else used Alien to get OOo 1.9.113 running on Ubuntu or would have a suggestion what to try. I also did a simple conversion from rpm to deb. Would that be a better way to go rather using Alien to do the install. And having said that what's the install procedure. man install is of course no bloody use at all. ;) Cheers Yo
Graham Lauder wrote:
Need a little help here for an rpm centric user
A .deb is fundamentally the same as a .rpm, just the tools are different.
I put the latest OOo beta in my Ubuntu box and ran alien with -i to convert and install
I think you're making things a bit harder for yourself by doing this. There seems to be a version of OOo 1.9.113 or .114 available for ubuntu already. From reading http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=46758 and looking at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openoffice.org2/, I'd suggest trying to install the package "openoffice.org2" As the root user in a shell, do something like: aptitude install openoffice.org2 You might need to add the universe repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
From reading http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=46758 and looking at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openoffice.org2/, I'd suggest trying to install the package "openoffice.org2"
As the root user in a shell, do something like:
aptitude install openoffice.org2
Just to confirm this (found a laptop with ubuntu on it): Assuming you're running Ubuntu Hoary (5.04), you will need to add the 'universe' repository. You can do this by editing /etc/apt/sources.list and putting the word 'universe' at the end of the line that looks approximately like deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted The 'archive.ubuntu.com' might be different, depending on which mirror you are using. Once you've added universe, run aptitude update in a console to update your database, then run aptitude install openoffice.org2 I believe synaptic is a semi-decent GUI for apt, so you might like to try this instead.
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