Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

[Net Llama!]

On 02/25/03 20:16, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
> % On 02/25/03 20:11, Tim Wunder wrote:
> % >On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote:
> % >>On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote:
> % >>> Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install?
> % >>> My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't have the
> % >>> specific error handy (sorry), so I'm just looking for verification that
> % >>> it can be done. I've tried the RPM from Mandrake's Cooker site, and
> % >>> that's failing, too.
> % >>
> % >>My approach would be:  get the binary package from OO.org, but then I'm
> % >>never a fan of RPM. <grin>
> % >
> % >heh... 
> % >That's what we did. I prefer compiling source and installing as RPM via 
> % >checkinstall. But I'm certainly *not* going to compile OOo...
> % 
> % why not?  don't have 18 hours to kill?  ;)
> 
> The good news is that you don't have to watch it compile. I build
> the latest GCC snapshot and the latest XFree from CVS every night
> while I sleep. They both seem to build faster, in fact, if I *don't*
> watch. ;-)

OO takes an order of magnitude longer to build than XFree86 & gcc 
combined, or so i've heard.  I've built XFree86 in about 45 minutes 
(4.2.0), and gcc in about 60 minutes in the past.

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