StarOffice 8 rmp2tgz question
 

Hi,

StarOffice 8 only has their packages in .rpm format. So, i need to convert to .tgz for Slackware. I've copied the RPMS folder from the CD-ROM to /home/user/RPMS. Is there some way of just telling rpm2tgz to just convert everything in that folder to the .tgz format? I tried

/usr/bin/rmp2tgz /home/user/RMPS/*

I hoped that the "*" would just be seen as a wild card. But, nothing happens. Or, do I need to manually convert each .rpm one at a time to .tgz? That's a lot of typing with those long file names.

Thanks,

-Joe

If you have a program that you wish to run on multiple files, but that program only takes a single file on the command line, use a loop:
EDIT: By the way, rpm2tgz is not one of these programs. It will handle multiple files just fine. Perhaps you mistyped?
What about:
Also, are you certain that nothing happened? If an error occured, it would have reported it. Are there .tgz files present in /home/usr/RPMS ?

Hi Zhangmaike!

It would seem that I have bigger problems than just spelling problems. (You are right.. I did mis-type.) I decided to try converting just one package from rpm to tgz. The following is cut and pasted from Konsole:

root@localhost:~# /usr/bin/rpm2tgz /home/joegum/RPMS/jre-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.rpm
root@localhost:~#


After doing this, the file did not convert to .tgz. I did this about five times. If it created another version, I cannot find it, even with "Find Files/Folders"

SOLVED!

My mistake.

I assumed that in order for rmp2tgz to work, I needed to su - to root. Not so...

When I was rmp2tgz as root, the files were going to root's home. So, even though I used the Find Files tool, root's home would be invisible to me since I was logged in as a user.

When I tried rpm2tgz as just user, the .tgz conversions went to user's home and are now visible.

Sorry 'bout that.
-Joe

Follow up...

All in all, it was hardly worth it. Though almost everything seems to work, SWriter has no ability to SAVE documents. I reinstalled, and I still cannot save. SWriter also brings up a menu when first starting "Filter Selection" that does not include any writer extensions... .txt, .swt, etc. I guess I'm going to have to figure out how to uninstall this mess.

-Joe

If you used tgz packages to install, uninstalling should be quite easy.

Just start a terminal and use pkgtool as root.

Joegumbo,

Did you try running StarWriter as root? It might be a permissions issue.

I had a similar problem with Sunbird calendar. A user couldn't create a calendar or any events, but root could. So it was a premissions thing - users couldn't write to the directory that Sunbird was saving stuff in.

Dennisk

Hi dennisk,

I tried as you suggested. This is the output:

root@localhost:~# /opt/staroffice8/program/swriter
/opt/staroffice8/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display:
Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
or check permissions of your X-Server
(See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)
root@localhost:~#


I was logged in as a regular user and tried this.

I also tried "man x" but there were no entries for man x.

I tried man xhost and there are man pages. I tried

xhost +

to try to let everyone ( me and root) access the xserver. It was unable to open.

I tried

chmod 666 xhost

but i was told that xhost does not exist.

-Joe

As your normal user (the one you logged into X-window as), type xhost +localhost. Then su - root and then export DISPLAY=:0.0
Then try starting swriter again.

On a different note - try downloading the openoffice.org slackbuild from www.slackbuilds.org and make changes to adapt it from openoffice to staroffice (a little search/replace) - then use that one to generate your own Slackware build .tgz. That should do the trick

-Y1

Hi Yalla-One,

I did as you said. But, when I started SWriter, it's still giving me the same issues...

It refuses to Save...

The list of formats available to me don't seem to include any text-based ones. I'm given choices like RTF (StarOffice Calc), Star Math 3.0, etc. But, no MS Word, Lotus word, or anything else like this. I've successfully used this on a different pc with other flavors of Linux. But, I guess that SWriter might not be compatible with Slackware 10.2 or somehting got messed up during rpm2tgz.

Thank you for trying,
-Joe

I'm not sure if I should post this here or if this should be a new thread.

To remove StarOffice, can I just go to /opt where SO installed itself and then just DELETE the SO folder, then manually edit the LAUNCH Menu. Or will I break something?

Thanks,
-Joe

You installed using the package system. You should also uninstall using the package system. This is what it is designed for.

Use pkgtool as root.

Hi Zhangmaike,

SO8 has been removed using pkgtool.

Thank you,
-Joe

Follow up...

After uninstalling SO8, I thought I'd try going back and installing my copy of StarOffice 7 "Product Update 1". I used SO7's own installer...

It seems to have gone on flawlessly. I can save from SWriter and all seems to work correctly.

-Joe

Actualy Slackware has rpm. I installed my OpenOffice rpm packages using rpm -i whateverpackage.rpm -nodeps For now everything works fine. The downside is you cannot use rpm -e to uninstall :-)