Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

[Tim Wunder]

On 2/26/2003 6:44 AM, someone claiming to be Collins wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:11 pm, 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...
> 
> 
> Which part of "binary package" did you fail to understand?  I've never found a 
> need to compile OO.  Just download, install, it's ready to fly in a few 
> minutes.
> 

Um, neither. I understood perfectly. Just trying to follow up on your 
RPM comment, I *do* like RPM, but not precompiled RPMs.

BTW, which part of "that's what we did" did *you* not understand? ;-)

Tim