You don't have to *compile* it. You can find someone who at least halfway knows what they're doing and let them write a script to repackage the rpm's into a good Slackware package, or use the package they created from it. That "someone" should be easy to find at this point. ;-)

Well, I know someone, I checked his site and found there re-packaged OpenOffice (about 150 MB).
I am not too much paranoid, it just a matter of principle: why should I download the same stuff again, just because it is repackaged.
I think the best is to ask:
Could you(or someone) actually tell why rpm2tgz-way did not work, and what should be changed to make it work?
(It's second-best; the best would be to do it myself, and post the results here).
Anyway, thank you, rworkman

:-)

If you've already got the binary tarball of rpm's, then use the build script.

Good question, and to be honest, I'm not sure. Installing with "rpm --nodeps" would run the post-install scripts embedded within the OOo rpms, and that *might* make a difference. However, rpm2tgz doesn't read those into the converted package, and neither does my method of conversion, so that doesn't explain the discrepancy. The only other major difference would be the menu entries that I fixed, but that shouldn't make a difference, I don't think.

Anyway, I think I've got the spellcheck problem solved. Will find out soon. :-)

Have fun! ;-)

No problem at all.

I just pushed a new package to my personal repo:
http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/

and sources are at http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/12.1/sources/openoffice.org/

If you already have the rpm tarball, you can just get the updated script itself; nothing else changed.

Once I get some confirmation that this works elsewhere (please remove all traces of your old installation first), I'll push an update to SlackBuilds.org.

Works fine here, Robby.

why do you need to add two --shared parameter when adding the extensions?

You can also click on the auto spell check button at the main toolbar of OOo 3.0 to activate the feature

Thanks, Robby:-) Your new package works fine for me as well.

Taken from Vinicius' comments at my blog: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?bl...71828225061007

People who uses rpm2tgz can try that solution and see if it works

For some reason none of this mattered for me. The AutoSpellCheck feature was not working. I'm going to test Robby's new SlackBuild now.

Edit:
Robby's new SlackBuild works great! I just had to swap out the SlackBuild file and rerun it. All three dictionaries were added properly with no intervention by me. I did make sure all remnants of the previous installation were deleted first.

Speaking of which, I solved my problem with the AutoSpellCheck. I figured out that I had to start with fresh OpenOffice settings (ie not import them from OOo 2, which is the default option). If you forget to uncheck the import box then delete your ~/.openoffice.org directory and try again.

Good question. I think the answer is "you don't" -- BUT I'm not 100% certain. See, I cheated a bit :-) I told rpm to show me the pre/post-install scripts that it runs (which neither rpm2tgz nor my manual conversion grab), and they were using two "--shared" statements, so I thought I'd be safe and do the same. At this point, I'm not fixing what isn't broken :-)

Okay, thanks for the confirmation, guys. The new build is slated to come out in the next push at SlackBuilds.org.

Interestingly enough, I imported my settings back when I first installed rc1 or rc2, and all is well here. If I get any more reports of this happening, I'll document it in the README, but for now, I'm going to assume (hope?) it's an isolated case.

You should not believe everything you read on the internet:
That was the result of building with Robby's new script,
and installing with:
Hope not to offend, but I can't stand FUD.

***** from willysr post *****
Taken from Vinicius' comments at my blog: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?bl...71828225061007


People who uses rpm2tgz can try that solution and see if it works
****

willysr, this was a good tip, thank you!
In short, I installed OOO 3.0, as usual, per rpm2tgz, and up, down keys etc did not work.
Today I renamed, as suggested,
/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/share/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter/accelerator/en-US/default.xm
into
/opt/openoffice.org/basis3.0/share/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter/accelerator/en-US/default.xml

I started OOO3, up, down keys etc still did not work.
I removed .openoffie.org directory, started OO3 again,
navigation keys, backspace work.
P.S. Auto spellcheck does not work, but I did not try to solve this problem yet.

if the autospellcheck does not work, then you can install the dictionary manually via Tools > Extensions Manager

Well, i do suggest that you try out SlackBuild script instead of relying to rpm2tgz. It works better and you will have better shortcut menus and icons as well.