Novell OPENOFFICE 2.X Setup Guide

OpenOffice.org 2.x

Setup Guide

[Setup Guide 2.0]
[Rev A_10]
First edition: [2005-02-24]
First English edition: [2005-02-24]

Contents

Contents

Contents.................................................................................................................................................i

Copyright and trademark information.................................................................................................iii

Feedback.........................................................................................................................................iii

Acknowledgments...............................................................................................................................iv

Modifications and updates..............................................................................................................iv

Overview...............................................................................................................................................1

General Installation Information...........................................................................................................3

RPM-based Installation........................................................................................................................5

Installation........................................................................................................................................5

Removal...........................................................................................................................................5

Debian-based Installation.....................................................................................................................7

Installing .debs.................................................................................................................................7

Removing .debs................................................................................................................................7

Installing from Linux RPMs............................................................................................................7

Solaris Installation................................................................................................................................9

Installation........................................................................................................................................9

Removal...........................................................................................................................................9

FreeBSD Installation...........................................................................................................................11

Quick method.................................................................................................................................11

Removal.........................................................................................................................................11

Gentoo installation..............................................................................................................................13

Removal.........................................................................................................................................14

Additional Information..................................................................................................................14

Slackware Installation.........................................................................................................................15

Removing ......................................................................................................................................15

Installation on Other UNIX systems..................................................................................................17

Mac OS X Installation........................................................................................................................19

Installing X11.................................................................................................................................19

Using Java 1.5................................................................................................................................21

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Contents

Removal.........................................................................................................................................22

Before OOo 2.0.2.................................................................................................................22

After OOo 2.0.2....................................................................................................................23

Windows® 98/ME/NT/2000/XP Installation.....................................................................................25

Single-User Installation.................................................................................................................25

Multiple User Environment under Windows® NT/2000/XP.......................................................30

User Configuration from a Multi-user install................................................................................33

Customizing an Installation................................................................................................................37

Auto installation.............................................................................................................................37

Installing individual modules from RPMs....................................................................................37

Installing multiple instances of OpenOffice.org with the same version number.........................38

Appendix 1 — MacOSX Extras.........................................................................................................41

Installing X11.................................................................................................................................41

How to install X11 with Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 ?.......................................................................41

Installing X11 on Panther(10.3)...........................................................................................41

Installing X11 on Tiger(10.4)...............................................................................................41

Launching X11.....................................................................................................................41

X11 claims to be already installed.......................................................................................42

Check and Select X11 settings :...........................................................................................42

1.6 How to get rid of the Xterm that starts without asking ?..............................................42

Public Documentation License, Version 1.0......................................................................................43

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Copyright and trademark information

Copyright and trademark information

The contents of this Documentation are subject to the Public Documentation License, Version

1.0 (the "License"); you may only use this Documentation if you comply with the terms of this
License. A copy of the License is available at:
http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.rtf

The Original Documentation is Setup Guide 2.0. The Initial Writer(s) of the Original

Documentation is/are G. Roderick Singleton © 2005. All Rights Reserved. (Initial Writer

contact(s):G. Roderick Singleton.)

Contributor(s): Jacqueline McNally, Sophie Gautier_________________________________.

Portions created by G. Roderick Singleton are Copyright © 2005. All Rights Reserved.
(Contributor contact(s):G. Roderick Singleton.

Portions created by Marko Moëller are Copyright © 2005. All Rights Reserved.
(Contributor contact(s):Marko. Moeller.

All trademarks within this guide belong to legitimate owners.

[Note: a copy of the PDL is included in this template and is also available at:

http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.rtf.]

Feedback

Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to:

[e-mail]

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Derek Dreger for taking care of the 1.x.x Setup Guides.

[e-mail] for Debian install from rpm, Jaqueline for Windows®, Shaun

McDonald for the Mac section, [e-mail] and too many others to mention
individually.

Modifications and updates

Version Date Description of Change

[0.15a] [2005-08-18] [Markomlm/grs: Solaris Part added and minor edits for style]

[0.16] [2005-08-29] [grs: 16th -- added upgrade from 1.1.x warning]

[0.17] [2005-08-31] [grs: 17th – changed install script hyperlink]

[0.18] [2005-09-05] [grs: 18

[0.19] [2005-09-07] [grs: 19

[0.20] [2005-09-20] [grs: 20

[0.21] [2005-10-02] [grs: 22nd Updated with Slackware installation ]

[Rev A] [2005-10-12] [grs: Rev A – First non draft version ]

[Rev. A_01] [2005-10-13] [markomlm: – First non draft version linked pictures]

[Rev. A_02] [2005-10-18] [grs: – minor edits and spelling corrections]

[Rev. A_03] [2005-10-23] [grs: – create A4 version and spelling corrections]

[Rev. A_04] [2005-10-26] [grs: – installing modules added]

[Rev. A_05] [2005-12-31] [grs: – new customization added and pzisson Getnoo changes

[Rev. A_06] [2006-02-13] [grs: – multi-instance section added]

[Rev. A_08] [2006-06-10] [grs: – X11 install for MacOSX]

[Rev. A_09] [2006-06-13] [smsm1: – MacOSX corrections]

[Rev. A_10] [2006-06-13] [grs: – fix formatting]

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-- fixed typos, remove Ubuntu script note

-- Changed debian section to reflect new filenames

-- Updated to Uhv methods in RPM section

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Acknowledgments

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Overview

This document is designed to provide users with instructions on installing OpenOffice.org 2.x
and its successors on their systems.

Overview

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Overview

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General Installation Information

General Installation Information

Starting with OpenOffice.org 2.x, installation is done using the native installers available on
each system. This means that installation only requires that you unpack the download image
and then launch the local tool.

Using the native installers will provide better upgrades et cetera.

Language packs are mostly available from each Native Language Community and may also be
available from http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ plus the
appropriate release. For example,

http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/2.0rc2/

Warning: Please keep in mind that upgrading from 1.1.x to any 2.x release is NOT
recommended, keep the installation of each separate.

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General Installation Information

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RPM-based Installation

Installation

1. Unpack the downloaded image into a directory. For example,Currently, the following
command would unpack into the current directory:

tar xvzf Ooo_2.0.xxx_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz .

1. su to root, if necessary.

2. cd into the directory with the unpacked image. This could be RPMS.

3. Then execute rpm -Uvh *rpm for the standard installation in /opt. If you prefer to
install in another directory, try

rpm -Uvh --prefix /<where_ooo_should_go>/ *.rpm or something
similar. When relocating, only relocate the base rpms, in other words, do not include

any user interface RPMs as these must go in their default locations for proper system
integration.

Note: Upgrade the core first and then upgrade the user interface. Separating steps 3 and 4 ensures a good
upgrade.

RPM-based Installation

4. cd into the desktop-integration directory and execute
rpm -Uvh for the menu rpm that applies to your system. For example, on a RedHat­based system, you would use

rpm -Uvh openoffice.org-redhat-menus-<release>.noarch.rpm or
similar.

5. Download and install any language packs needed for OpenOffice.org. For example, if
you relocated Openoffice.org, you need

rpm -Uvh --prefix //<where_ooo_should_go>/ <name_of_pack>.rpm

Please read the man page for the rpm that comes with your distribution and select the options
that best apply to your situation. The examples above are only that, examples.

Installing individual components is the same as above but only requires the specific module be
installed. For example, install all core rpms and then install those for each module you wish,
such as, openoffice.org-impress-2.0.0-1.i586.rpm to install only Impress.

Other modules may also be necessary.

Note: You may substitute -ihv for -Uhv in any of the above commands to install without upgrading.

Removal

I found the following useful:

rpm -qa openoffice.org\* | xargs rpm --erase -–nodeps

Another method of removing an OpenOffice.org release is to use a file that lists the modules as
follows:

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RPM-based Installation

rpm -qa | grep openoffice > rmlist
which records what is installed in the file rmlist. The grep string will, of course, vary
according to the release. Edit rmlist for anything you do not want to remove. Then when it
is time to remove a release one simply has to enter:

rpm -e `cat rmlist`

Warning: Using rpm -e openoffice.org\* does not work. under FC3 or Suse 9.3 and possibly other
distributions.

Remember with the development and beta releases that it may be best to remove
<installdir>/openoffice* and any $HOME/.openoffice* files and directories

before installing a new version.

There may be better ways to do this but I find the above effective. Please check

http://installation.openoffice.org/source/browse/installation/setup_native/scripts/ for example

install and uninstall scripts or use them as a model for your own.

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Debian-based Installation

Debian-based Installation

Installing .debs

The simplest way to install the OpenOffice.org package you've downloaded is use the
command dpkg -i (short for dpkg –install).

1. First log on as root or from the GUI, open a root terminal.

2. Type:

dpkg -i -–force-overwrite openoffice.org*.deb \
desktop-integration/openoffice.org-debian-menus*.deb

and openoffice.org will be installed. If you already had an older version, dpkg will
upgrade it rather than installing both versions at once.

3. Install any language packs needed for OpenOffice.org.

Removing .debs

4. If you want to remove a package, you have two options. The first is most intuitive:
dpkg -r openoffice.org This will remove the openoffice.org package

(-r is short for --remove).

Note that you give only the 'openoffice.org' for --remove, while --install requires the entire .deb
filename.

Installing from Linux RPMs

1. Download Ooo_2.0.xxx_Linux<NeededCPUArchitecture>_install.tar.gz.

2. Unpack downloaded .tar.gz archive, for example with command 'tar xvzf'

3. cd into the RPMS subfolder, which will be created after unpacking the .tar.gz

4. Run su (or sudo -s, if your system uses sudo and you are allowed to run a shell as
root with sudo -s. For example, Debian-based Ubuntu Linux uses sudo as the
default utility that permits a user to become administrator (root)

5. Delete any openoffice.org*menus*.rpm files that do not apply to your system. For
example openoffice.org-suse-menus*.rpm and openoffice.org-redhat-menus*.rpm are
not for Debian.

6. Install the alien utility for converting RPM packages to native Debian packages
(.DEB) with command 'apt-get install alien' or by manually downloading
from http://packages.debian.org/alien/.

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Debian-based Installation

Note: alien versions 8.50 and earlier are known not to set the correct file permissions for
some files. Please refer to issue 54163 Solution: Use alien version 8.51 or newer or workaround the
problem by manually correcting the file-permissions

1. Run command 'alien -k *.rpm' to produce .deb packages

2. Install .deb packages with command

dpkg -i -–force-overwrite openoffice.org*.deb

Note: Using -–force-overwrite option can prevent errors where files belong to several packages.

3. Optionally install java runtime environment (j2re) from www.blackdown.org

4. Install any language packs needed for OpenOffice.org (also converted to .deb format
with alien utility)

5. Exit from administrator (root) shell with command 'exit'

6. Now you can run OpenOffice with the command
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice.

Note: For those willing to accept development snapshots, there is another possibility, simply grab the debs from

ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/ in the 680 directory. Pick your

release and let us know which works for you.

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