how do you install open office 2
 

I was just wondering if their was an easy way to install open office 2.
I removed open office 1.1 and thought I could just go to mandrake control center and go to the install software system and pick out open office 2.

I don't see any options for open office 2. I downloaded open office 2 but i don't see how to load it up. It a tarbell file but has a lot of rpms in it. But i can't find one main install file.

I would rather do it from Mandrake control center or by using the urpmi command

ANy ideas ????

Does it have any document with the tarball?

openoffice2 doesn't have a central installer anymore. You install the rpms you need. It's usually all the rpms, minus distro specific rpms that don't pertain to your distro. Also, there's a subdirectory for desktop integration specific to distro. install the rpm in that directory that deals with your distro.

ok,
Thanks, that was about what I was thinking.One directory has a bunch of rpm files that I think you install one by one. I was hoping there was one central install rpm or file. I will play with it a while more.

The documentation read wasn't to clear it just said to delete the distro's that don't apply to you and install them.

I can always put open office 1.1 back in I don't use it that much anyway. I have heard someone say that you can install it by urpmi if you know the correct file name.

Thanks for the info........

Like most distros Mandriva don't generally provide RPMs of new versions of programs in the same distro. Ie. if your distro came with OpenOffice1.1 then any updates from Mandriva will be that same version (1.1) but with important bug or security fixes backported in. This is why you can't get it through urpmi.

So if you want OpenOffice 2 you can either get it directly from the website and just install the RPMs that come in the package or you can wait for the next release of Mandriva. It just so happens that they recently released a special 'Club Only' update called 2006.1 which has updated KDE, GNOME, OpenOffice 2 and other stuff like that, if you're a member of the Mandriva club. Otherwise the next full release (Mandriva 2007 probably in Oct or Nov. 2006) will have the latest version of OpenOffice.

If you want help deciding which RPMs to install from the OpenOffice tarball then post here. However generally you'd do this from the command line:

Thanks for info,
I can keep using version 1.1 I don't use it that much.

But Thanks for all the information you guys help with.
That is what makes Linux so good and able to grow. It's hard for the average user to install and set up LInux.
Example.. Getting wireless working/ dvd working/ and installing software etc. I think a major part of the future with linux is users helping other users.
I have had quite a good help which I appreciate and try and pass on to others.

Linux is cool and with each new release is getting closer to replacing windows.!!!

Someone asked this question recently in the Mandriva forum, so its essential to search first before starting a new thread. When you have installed the main OOo rpms, remember to install the OOo Mandriva menu rpm avaialbe in the RPMS/desktop-integration subdirectory of your OOo directory.

Just in case anybody goes googling and finds this thread, it should be noted that you cannot install the OpenOffice 2.0 rpms individually, as each is dependent on another. You have to untar the file, open a terminal, su and cd to the extracted directory and type urpmi *.rpm, and it will install them all at the same time. Then just go to the sub folder with distro-specific menu options and open the one for Mandriva.

I'm faced with the same thing as charlescpc, only I'm using FC4. I freshly installed a few days ago and didn't install OOo 2.0, because I knew I could get 2.1 and install it freshly as well.

Can I assume that urpmi will work the same in FC4? Just curious--I have never used urpmi before.

Thanks!

Fedora doesn't use urpmi, I think it uses yum, but the methodology should be very similar, if not the same. You might have better luck in the Fedora forum.

Install using rpm as indicated above. You also need to install the Redhat menus rpm in the desktop integration subdirectory so that OOOo shows up in the Fedora menu.

You'd usually just do put all the openoffice rpms you've downloaded into one folder and do You only need to use systems like yum or urpmi when there's dependencies that need to be resolved through the package repositories.

after you do (where tarfile is the name of the archive you got from the site), just do in the RPMs directory. Then, from the RPMs directory, cd into Desktop-Integration, and do
to get your menus and such. Also, these directions are on the openoffice web site. You simply click "Installations Requirements and Guides" on the right side of the download page, and click "Linux" or "linux installation" or something like that. (no I did not just copy these instructions from the site, I typed them down from memory, and just remember that you could've found them out yourself had you tried)

You don't need to use "U" and "i" in the same line. Either use "rpm -Uvh" or "rpm -ivh", but not both.