OpenOffice 2.0 under Gnome 2.12.1

[Rob Mason]

P.U.Kruppa wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Rob Mason wrote:
>
>> I have the linux module loaded, but must confess that I've never had 
>> the need to use it. How would I go about install the linux versions 
>> of OOo - pkg_add???
>
> No, sorry it won't be that simple.
> 1) Download the Linux stuff from www.openoffice.org - mine is
> called
> OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_de.tar.gz (de for german)
> 2) # gunzip OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_de.tar.gz
> 3) # tar zxf OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_de.tar
> which will produce a - besides other stuff - a directory
> called RPMS .
> 4) # cd RPMS
> 5) # rpm -i --nodeps --ignorearch --ignoreos *
> 6) For some Linux reasons all executables now are placed in a
> directory called /opt/openoffice.org2.0
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Uli.
>
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>> Rob
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Many thanks - it appeared to install, but the folloiwng error appeared 
when I tried to run 'soffice'

/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/spadmin.bin: error while loading shared 
libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
directory

:-(





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