On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 11:50 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
Res wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Rick Bilonick wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried installing OpenOffice from the OpenOffice website
>> (rather than using the Fedora version)? I have the Fedora 8 version
>> installed but would like to go back to using the non-Fedora version. In
>> the past, I have always run into problems installing the non-Fedora
>> version (but could always get it running). I would appreciate hearing
>> peoples' current experiences and recommendations.
>>
>
> I have always only used their version since fedora also hack out bits of
> openoffice code they dont want in for their as per usual political
> BS, so using OO directly from OO you actually get the complete full
> OpenOffice, it alsoc performs more smoothly I've found.
>
>
No x86_64 version AFAICT.
Would you install with openoffice's java, or not?
How do you install the latest ooo on Fedora 8? Every time I've tried to
install in the past something got messed up, like being listed in the
menu. I never know which interface rpm to install? Gnome?
Rick B.