topic title: RPM files Alien install fails
Posts: 54
SaminBare
Joined: 30 May 2010
#1
Last night, I intended to download and install the Office package go-oo from its homepage so that a friend may have both antiX Linux and a program he can use compatable with MS Office files he needs for work. The go-oo files ended up being RPM files, however. So, I had to become root and apt-get Alien and RPM after using the supplied script to download all files needed for the install.

All the *.rpm files I placed within my user's Downloads directory.

From this directory @ command line:

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 alien --to-deb ./*


returned seven deb files generated, but the eigth failed with

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"Unpacking of './ooobasis3.2-core05-3.2.0-9483.i586.rpm' failed at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 168"
Line 168 reads

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$this->do("rpm2cpio".$this->filename." | (cd $workdir; $decomp cpio --extract --make-directories --no-absolute-filenames --preserve-modification-time) 2>&1")
Does the above PERL script have a bug in it or am I doing something incorrectly?
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eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#2
Those look like Suse rpm's. I wouldn't install them on a deb based system. I would use the source or even better"apt-get install openoffice.org". This will bring in the whole suite. antiX comes with Abiword which is .doc compatible and works well for the little bit I need and office suite for.
Posts: 54
SaminBare
Joined: 30 May 2010
#3
Thanks, eriefisher! I've struck out wirth rpm files 3 out 4 times now -- I'll just go with OpenOffice, with reservations on its writer. I like Abiword better, myself, but the friend needs a presentation package compatible with Powerpnt.

Am I able to combine the two and use Abiword in lieu of oo writer ? (This is why I was trying to go with go-oo in the first place).
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eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#4
The two should coexist without issue. Just set the default app to open when clicking on a file. Another option is TextMaker. I used it briefly and it seems to work well. They have a free trial but it is a pay for app.


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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#5
Bringing this up as I saw that Debian's OpenOffice is actually Go-OO.

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Debian
Debian provides Go-OO in their repositories. To install it just type as root

# apt-get install openoffice.org
Posts: 54
SaminBare
Joined: 30 May 2010
#6
Good to know. Thanks!

Semi-related
re: debian-multimedia -- was concerned to hear of this --
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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#7
If you read there he actually seems to say he would prefer that people downloaded and compiled their .tar.gz file since it has statically linked libraries (their own, that is).
That's what I understood of it.
If it's so, anytime you have problems with VLC, installing that way would be the way you would get their support.