Apps :: Installing OpenOffice from source

You can use the OO.dsl for a hd-install also, I've done it myself and I believe it works just fine. What you can do if you don't have a network connection is to download the .dsl-file open emelfm and click on the myDSL-button (in the center, top). You can also do it manually, which I do since I have a hd-install of dsl 0.7. Then you copy the .dsl-file to / (root directory), rename it from .dsl to .tar.gz (.dsl is actually tar.gz really, I believe) and do 'tar -zxvf OO.tar.gz' in a prompt (you probably have to be root), and ... voila!
There are probably also lots of other ways of doing it, but the above-mentioned ones work for me at least.

-r

This really sounds easy. I am going to try this out.

Do you know something about the disadvantages of the .dsl files when using with a hd-install?

I have used .dsl files for my hd-install, and they work just fine. I am not really sure if there are any disadvantages. If you use apt-get you might get the more updated programs of course. (OO.dsl is OO version 1.1.0 I think?)

I have a hd-install of dsl, and I don't have network connection on that computer, so I have therefore downloaded and used .dsls (as I explained), and I have also downloaded a set of sarge cds. I then do apt-cdrom add, and apt-get install all the progs I want. Works fine!

-r

You can download a pre-compiled from openoffice.org (NO compiling requiered)

i run a poorman´s install ( that is its like livecd but the compresed rootfs is not on cd but hd)
i have a linux partition (hda7) just to store things.

this is what i did ( i needed a dutch version):
download OOo_1.1.2_LinuxIntel_instal_nl.tar.gz
extract to linuxpartition /OOo-instalatie
run setup -net ( from /OOo-instalatie )
make symlink in /opt to /openoffice1.1.2 on linuxpartition
add: /opt/openoffice1.1.2 /home/dsl/OpenOffice.org1.1.2 /home/dsl/.sversionrc and home/dsl/.mime.types to filetool.lst
then run spadmin from /home/dsl/OpenOffice.org1.1.2

it takes some reading and experimenting, but thats the way you get things done.

now i am a happy OpenOffice user.

Do you think OO is faster when using it as .dsl file.
The OO source was very very slow and very much slower than under Win98SE.

A lot of people say in comparison to the OO from source the OO.dsl needs less RAM.
That is a contradiction because at the following homepage there is an information the OO.dsl needs 384MB RAM.

ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/index.html

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