Does anyone have an idea about why it takes so long for
rpms of OOo to come out for Fedora Core?

1.1.2 has been out for quite some time and still no
FC2 rpms.

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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:36:35 -0700, Don Campbell wrote:

> Does anyone have an idea about why it takes so long for rpms of OOo to
> come out for Fedora Core?
>
> 1.1.2 has been out for quite some time and still no FC2 rpms.

Look here;
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...a/RP
MS/

Or use one of the mirror sites;
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html


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Lenard,

Thanks so much. For some reason it wasn't showing up in
my google searches or my "up2date" requests. I'll have to
figure that out.

Don

Lenard wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:36:35 -0700, Don Campbell wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> Look here;
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...a/
RPMS/
>
> Or use one of the mirror sites;
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
>
>

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Lenard wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:36:35 -0700, Don Campbell wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> Look here;
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...a/
RPMS/
>
> Or use one of the mirror sites;
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
>
>
I spoke too soon. Instead of simply installing on FC2, I get
obscure dependencies:

> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libebook.so.8 is needed by openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-3
>         libedataserver.so.3 is needed by openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-3

Googling for these gives me hints that some evolution data server is
what provides libedataserver.so.3?? I don't want to screw around
with an Evolution server. Ho hum...Back to 1.1.1  I guess.
Which brings me back to the original question.

My issue with installing from the tarball is that every time I upgrade
I have to go through the dog and pony show of setting it all up from
scratch. The tarball doesn't know my old settings, it uses different
commands to invoke the applications than RH/FC use. I realize that some
of this is a Fedora not an OOo issue, but it sure is annoying for such
a great suite of applications to be a pain to upgrade.

Don

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Don Campbell wrote:
> Lenard wrote:
> 
> I spoke too soon. Instead of simply installing on FC2, I get
> obscure dependencies:
> 
>
Ouch, it gets worse. Trying to install evolution-data-server gets
a new list of dependencies--stemming to openldap. Then trying to
install openldap gets even more dependencies. Dependency hell is
alive and foiling me with openoffice.org-1.1.2 What a pain. I'll
wait I guess.

Don
>
> Googling for these gives me hints that some evolution data server is
> what provides libedataserver.so.3?? I don't want to screw around
> with an Evolution server. Ho hum...Back to 1.1.1  I guess.
> Which brings me back to the original question.
>
> My issue with installing from the tarball is that every time I upgrade
> I have to go through the dog and pony show of setting it all up from
> scratch. The tarball doesn't know my old settings, it uses different
> commands to invoke the applications than RH/FC use. I realize that some
> of this is a Fedora not an OOo issue, but it sure is annoying for such
> a great suite of applications to be a pain to upgrade.
>
> Don

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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:16:49 -0700, Don Campbell wrote:
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> Lenard wrote: 
> I spoke too soon. Instead of simply installing on FC2, I get obscure
> dependencies:
> 


Try using the oo-1.1.2 rpms from here(the unofficial KDE-3.3 update RPM's
are here also);

ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/2/RPMS.testing/

The openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-3.0 rpm is here; http://rpm.pbone.net/

Look for; openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-3.0.kde.i386.rpm



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Lenard,

Thanks again for replying.

I don't have kde installed. I would assume that the rpms
you pointed to are kde specific? I gather that's part of the
problem. It would appear that kde is favored over gnome
by the developers?

Don

Lenard wrote:

[snip...]

>
> Try using the oo-1.1.2 rpms from here(the unofficial KDE-3.3 update RPM's
> are here also);
>
> ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/2/RPMS.testing/
>
> The openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-3.0 rpm is here; http://rpm.pbone.net/
>
> Look for; openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-3.0.kde.i386.rpm
>
>
>

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Don Campbell wrote:[vbcol=seagreen] 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...86/Fedora/RPMS/[vbcol=
seagreen] 
> I spoke too soon. Instead of simply installing on FC2, I get
> obscure dependencies:
> 

It's a development package, so it's built for FC3test1 + current
development updates. It might work on FC2 if you install all the
dependecies, but then your system isn't really FC2 anymore.

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Don Campbell wrote:
> Ouch, it gets worse. Trying to install evolution-data-server gets
> a new list of dependencies--stemming to openldap. Then trying to
> install openldap gets even more dependencies.

Haven't you heard about yum and up2date? They will take care of the
dependencies automatically.

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Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Don Campbell wrote:
> 
>
>
> Haven't you heard about yum and up2date? They will take care of the
> dependencies automatically.
Yeah, sure. I have up2date setup and get almost everything I need
that way. But, guess what--I type "up2date openoffice.org" and
after much grinding and seeking up2date announces proudly that
my openoffice.org-1.1.1 is already up to date.

Have you heard of a yum depository that has openoffice.org-1.1.2?
>

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