Unable to install Open Officee, running KDE

dcrede · 05-02-2005, 12:39 PM

I am running Debian with KDE. I have downloaded Open Office and stored the
rpm files in directory "/usr/RPM/OpenOffice". I run Package Manager under
root. I select "Settings/Configure kPackage". I enabled RPM and clicked on "Locations
of Packages". On the window which appears, with the D1 tab selected, I checked
the Use box and entered "/usr/RPM/OpenOffice" in field to the left of the "Use" box.

The Open Office packages appeared in the Package Manager tree. I clicked on the red
dot next to the free desk top menu entry so that there was a check mark and then clicked
on the "Install Marked" button. The RPM Package window appeared The name of the
package which I selected appeared. I clicked on it to select it and clicked on the
Install button. Nothing happened, no error messages, no installation.

I have tried several variations, such as selecting all packages, not selecting the
RPM windows, all with same result. Nothing happens. I have run out of ideas. I
would appreciate any ideas that somebody else might have.

david_ross · 05-02-2005, 12:47 PM

What happens when you run:
rpm -ivh /path/to/openoffice.rpm

dcrede · 05-02-2005, 01:22 PM

When I run rpm -ivh /usr/RPM/OpenOffice from a terminal I get a response that it cannot open
Pachages data base at /var/lib/rpm. When I try to list that path, "ls" says that it does not exist.

HappyTux · 05-02-2005, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dcrede
When I run rpm -ivh /usr/RPM/OpenOffice from a terminal I get a response that it cannot open
Pachages data base at /var/lib/rpm. When I try to list that path, "ls" says that it does not exist.

What version are you trying to install if 1.1.4 or less you can get it in Debian with apt-get.

Code:

>$ apt-cache policy openoffice.org
openoffice.org:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.1.3-9
  Version Table:
     1.1.4-2 0
          1 http://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages
     1.1.3-9 0
        990 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
        600 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages

Now you would need to add experimental to your sources.list to get 1.1.4. If you are trying to get a version 2 then use alien -i openoffice.rpm to have the alien program convert to .deb then install the package.