Open Office 3.0 Released

hitest · 10-13-2008, 08:34 AM

Thanks Robby! As always your packages are excellent.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/hitest/OO30.jpg

http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/

willysr · 10-13-2008, 09:11 AM

AFAIK, that's RC4
Official OOo release never used m3 on their about dialog box

anyways, i used rpm2tgz and i can't use navigation keys on OOo 3 (home, end, page up, page down, arrow keys). Do you have the similar problem?

hitest · 10-13-2008, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

AFAIK, that's RC4
Official OOo release never used m3 on their about dialog box

anyways, i used rpm2tgz and i can't use navigation keys on OOo 3 (home, end, page up, page down, arrow keys). Do you have the similar problem?

I don't use rpm2tgz, I prefer to use official packages, Robby or Eric's packages, or build scripts from slackbuilds.org. Keys are working here.

willysr · 10-13-2008, 09:37 AM

Thanks. I will try to use SlackBuild script to build the OOo 3
i used rpm2tgz in the past for OOo 2 and no problem up to now

hitest · 10-13-2008, 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

Thanks. I will try to use SlackBuild script to build the OOo 3
i used rpm2tgz in the past for OOo 2 and no problem up to now

You're welcome. Good luck:-)

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...penoffice.org/

willysr · 10-13-2008, 09:49 AM

yeah it worked out here
strange. I guess it's the package path probably

samac · 10-13-2008, 09:51 AM

You can also get internationalization packages from openoffice's website. These can be converted with rpm2tgz, though I exploded them all after they had been converted and repackaged as one package with makepkg. An awful lot easier to track with one package.

samac

hitest · 10-13-2008, 10:02 AM

I'm running an aging Celeron 850 with 768 MB RAM on Slackware 12.1. Using Robby's package is less time-consuming for me on this beast than a slackbuild script. But, a slackbuild script will get the job done just as well:-)

hitest · 10-13-2008, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

yeah it worked out here
strange. I guess it's the package path probably

Glad it worked out for you:-)

willysr · 10-13-2008, 10:08 AM

but i'm still curious with the codename.
OOO300m9 is the codename for OOO 3.0 RC4
and if i'm not mistaken, the final release of OOo never used M9 code in the about box

anyways, i have asked this on their marketing mailing list and should have a response in a while

willysr · 10-13-2008, 10:14 AM

well, looks like it's official. There were no changes since RC4, so they decided to go live with it (with M9 still on it)

adriv · 10-13-2008, 11:12 AM

Does anyone know if there are language packs available?
I cannot find them.
I installed OOo 3 yesterday but almost got lynched by my wife and kids: "it's in English!".
So we're back to 2.4 now...

H_TeXMeX_H · 10-13-2008, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by adriv

Does anyone know if there are language packs available?
I cannot find them.
I installed OOo 3 yesterday but almost got lynched by my wife and kids: "it's in English!".
So we're back to 2.4 now...

Yeah, take a look here:
http://download.openoffice.org/

Looks like the Dutch version is delayed.

adriv · 10-13-2008, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Yeah, take a look here:
http://download.openoffice.org/

Looks like the Dutch version is delayed.

Too bad...
Thanks for the link though!

jazzor · 10-13-2008, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

AFAIK, that's RC4
Official OOo release never used m3 on their about dialog box

anyways, i used rpm2tgz and i can't use navigation keys on OOo 3 (home, end, page up, page down, arrow keys). Do you have the similar problem?

Yes I have exactly the same problem. On top of that, backspace doesnt work.
Going to tools->customize and resetting the keyboard shortcuts also crashes the application. Its better to wait for the next bugfix by the looks of things, and theres not really that much things useful in 3.0 anyway (and you still cant select multiple objects in writer...) that justifies the instability and loosing the use of backspace and arrow keys.