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The APT or DPKG package manager used to install, update and remove DEB packages, and is provided as part of DEB based Linux distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu.
  
 
{{Documentation/Note | If you have the RPMS package and do not want to download the DEBS package, you can convert the RPMs to DEBs using the following command:
 
{{Documentation/Note | If you have the RPMS package and do not want to download the DEBS package, you can convert the RPMs to DEBs using the following command:

Revision as of 08:41, 22 July 2008


RPM Based Linux distributions

RPM package manager used to install, update and remove RPM packages, and is provided as part of RPM based Linux distributions such as openSUSE and RedHat.

Installation

Unpack the downloaded package. The easiest way to accomplish this is to execute the Apache OpenOffice installation file.

  • Become root if necessary
su -
  • Execute the installation package


The RPMS directory contains RPM package for the Gnome and SUSE integration. Users which do not use a SUSE distribution or the Gnome desktop should to remove these files.

  • Linux users with an other distribution than SUSE
  • Users which do not use the Gnome desktop

The RPM command has a rich set of command line parameters. This section describes the most important parameters only. Make sure that you are in the directory where RPM packages are located.

For an installation into the standard /opt directory :

rpm -ivh *.rpm

If you prefer to install in another directory.

rpm -ivh –prefix /export *.rpm

Be careful with this. The Gnome and SUSE desktop integration will not work.

Remove the Apache OpenOffice installation packages :

Installing Apache OpenOffice Product Upgrades/Patches

Deinstallation

Use the RPM package manager to uninstall Apache OpenOffice. You have to determine the list of Apache OpenOffice related packages.

  • Become root if necessary
su -
  • To remove all Apache OpenOffice related packages:

Debian Packages

Installation

The APT or DPKG package manager used to install, update and remove DEB packages, and is provided as part of DEB based Linux distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu.

Template:Documentation/Note

   cd OOo_inst_folder/DEBS
   sudo dpkg -i *.deb


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