ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org 1.0.0 is released for PPC Linux
Hi, The official 1.0.0 release of OpenOffice.org for PPC Linux is now available! OpenOffice.org basically supplies an almost drop in replacement for Microsoft Office (and is getting better with every release). New in this release ---------------------- - new hyphenator - new "install" script to make installation easier - lots of stability improvements and bug fixes - improved KDE and GNOME desktop integration - lots of new dictionaries available from: http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html For more information including the full source code/ release notes / FAQs, etc check out the OpenOffice.org website: http://www.openoffice.org System Requirements ------------------------ - any ppc linux system with glibc 2.2.X or higher, - XFree86 4.0 or higher - 200 meg of free disk space This includes YellowDogLinux 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2, SuSE 7.3 and higher, MandrakeSoft 8.1, 8.2 Beta and Debian PPC. If you have success with any other PPC distributions, please let me know. Installation Instructions ------------------------- Please read the OOo_1.0.0_README for complete install instructions (installation is very different from most unix programs). If you run into trouble there is now a full OOo_install_guide.pdf to help. Download Locations ----------------------- The home for PPC Linux OpenOffice.org releases is: ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/ Graciously mirrored at: http://ftp.penguinppc.org/projects/openoffice/ ftp://ftp.penguinppc.org/projects/openoffice/ ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice/release-1.0.0/ Please let me know if you can/will mirror this release/ Thank you Dan Burcaw (YDL) for providing a new home of the PPC Linux OpenOffice.org project. And thanks to Olaf Hering ( of SuSE) and Jeramy Smith for (penguinppc.org) for graciously providing download locations for this (and earlier releases!). Please support our PPC Linux distributions and buy the latest distributions, they are helping to bring great new software to you! Thanks, Kevin Hendricks kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca
Ciao, I downloaded the english version 1.0.0 and tried to install it, but without success. That makes me wonder, because with build638 and 641d everything went fine...? "install" says, it could not connect to X-Server, but then said: "Installation complete" "setup" stopped, equally saying, it could not connect to the X-Server ... Any suggestions? I'm using SuSE 7.3 on a new PowerBook with kernel 2.4.16 Greetings Bernd
Bernd Kulawik wrote:
Ciao,
I downloaded the english version 1.0.0 and tried to install it, but without success. That makes me wonder, because with build638 and 641d everything went fine...? "install" says, it could not connect to X-Server, but then said: "Installation complete" "setup" stopped, equally saying, it could not connect to the X-Server ...
Any suggestions? I'm using SuSE 7.3 on a new PowerBook with kernel 2.4.16
Greetings
Bernd
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Hi, Please make sure you are running X11 (the installation is graphical becuase even the install script (although non-grphical uses a library that needs X11 - which is a bug that should be fixed) So please make sure you are running XFree86 (X11) before you start up /install. Also you might want to make sure your DISPLAY environment variable is set properly. For my machine after a simple "startx" you get: echo $DISPLAY :0.0 If yours does not show the same thing then do export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 Then try running the install script again. Hope this helps, Kevin On May 2, 2002 08:04, Damir Buskulic wrote:
Bernd Kulawik wrote:
Ciao,
I downloaded the english version 1.0.0 and tried to install it, but without success. That makes me wonder, because with build638 and 641d everything went fine...? "install" says, it could not connect to X-Server, but then said: "Installation complete" "setup" stopped, equally saying, it could not connect to the X-Server ...
Any suggestions? I'm using SuSE 7.3 on a new PowerBook with kernel 2.4.16
Greetings
Bernd
Not sure, but you should probably, as standard user, do a xhost 127.0.0.1 then root should be able to open a window. By the way, I don't understand why this is necessary, i.e. why xhost is not set by default for the users (including root) on the machine which one uses. Cheers Damir Bernd Kulawik wrote:
Ciao,
I downloaded the english version 1.0.0 and tried to install it, but without success. That makes me wonder, because with build638 and 641d everything went fine...? "install" says, it could not connect to X-Server, but then said: "Installation complete" "setup" stopped, equally saying, it could not connect to the X-Server ...
Any suggestions? I'm using SuSE 7.3 on a new PowerBook with kernel 2.4.16
Greetings
Bernd
-- ===================================================================== | Damir Buskulic | Universite de Savoie/LAPP | | | Chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110 | | Tel : +33 (0)450091600 | F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex | | e-mail: buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr | FRANCE | ===================================================================== mailto:buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr
Hallo, Damir Buskulic wrote:
Not sure, but you should probably, as standard user, do a
xhost 127.0.0.1
A better method is to use xauth: 1. User me starts X me@host: startx 2. User me lists the X authorizaion keys me@host: xauth list unix:0: HASHMETHOD VERYLONGHASHSTRING ..... # ^^^ HASHMETHOD and VERYLONGHASHSTRING are just placeholders 3. root wants to connect to me's X desktop root@host: xauth add unix:0: HASHMETHOD VERYLONGHASHSTRING 4. root can now start any X program on me's X desktop
then root should be able to open a window.
By the way, I don't understand why this is necessary, i.e. why xhost is not set by default for the users (including root) on the machine which one uses.
some Linux distributions had this feature, but its not recommended. Any user on localhost could start an X program. If the program can be compromised, the attacker could get X users rights or maybe even root access! By using the above method, you can start X without listening on port 6000 (or similar) for incoming connections I don't know the exact switch to use ("X -help" will show you, I think its "X -notcp") So long, Guido
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