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April 28th, 2009, 04:25 PM
eee ubuntu ASUS eee1000
I am trying to install OpenOffice 3.0 and followed two sets of instructions. Neither have worked.
Here are the instructions and results.
http://download.openoffice.org/common/instructions.html#linux
There are lots of rpm files. How do I convert them all?
shawn@shawn-laptop:~$ cd OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379
shawn@shawn-laptop:~/OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379$ cd RPMS
shawn@shawn-laptop:~/OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/RPMS$ rpm -Uvih *rpm
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
shawn@shawn-laptop:~/OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/RPMS$ alien
You must specify a file to convert.
Usage: alien [options] file [...]
file [...] Package file or files to convert.
-d, --to-deb Generate a Debian deb package (default).
Enables these options:
--patch=<patch> Specify patch file to use instead of automatically
looking for patch in /var/lib/alien.
--nopatch Do not use patches.
--anypatch Use even old version os patches.
-s, --single Like --generate, but do not create .orig
directory.
--fixperms Munge/fix permissions and owners.
--test Test generated packages with lintian.
-r, --to-rpm Generate a Red Hat rpm package.
--to-slp Generate a Stampede slp package.
-l, --to-lsb Generate a LSB package.
-t, --to-tgz Generate a Slackware tgz package.
Enables these options:
--description=<desc> Specify package description.
--version=<version> Specify package version.
-p, --to-pkg Generate a Solaris pkg package.
-i, --install Install generated package.
-g, --generate Generate build tree, but do not build package.
-c, --scripts Include scripts in package.
-v, --verbose Display each command alien runs.
--veryverbose Be verbose, and also display output of run commands.
-k, --keep-version Do not change version of generated package.
--bump=number Increment package version by this number.
-h, --help Display this help message.
-V, --version Display alien's version number.
shawn@shawn-laptop:~/OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/RPMS$
I am trying to install OpenOffice 3.0 and followed two sets of instructions. Neither have worked.
Here are the instructions and results.
http://download.openoffice.org/common/instructions.html#linux
There are lots of rpm files. How do I convert them all?
shawn@shawn-laptop:~$ cd OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379
shawn@shawn-laptop:~/OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379$ cd RPMS
shawn@shawn-laptop:~/OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/RPMS$ rpm -Uvih *rpm
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
shawn@shawn-laptop:~/OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/RPMS$ alien
You must specify a file to convert.
Usage: alien [options] file [...]
file [...] Package file or files to convert.
-d, --to-deb Generate a Debian deb package (default).
Enables these options:
--patch=<patch> Specify patch file to use instead of automatically
looking for patch in /var/lib/alien.
--nopatch Do not use patches.
--anypatch Use even old version os patches.
-s, --single Like --generate, but do not create .orig
directory.
--fixperms Munge/fix permissions and owners.
--test Test generated packages with lintian.
-r, --to-rpm Generate a Red Hat rpm package.
--to-slp Generate a Stampede slp package.
-l, --to-lsb Generate a LSB package.
-t, --to-tgz Generate a Slackware tgz package.
Enables these options:
--description=<desc> Specify package description.
--version=<version> Specify package version.
-p, --to-pkg Generate a Solaris pkg package.
-i, --install Install generated package.
-g, --generate Generate build tree, but do not build package.
-c, --scripts Include scripts in package.
-v, --verbose Display each command alien runs.
--veryverbose Be verbose, and also display output of run commands.
-k, --keep-version Do not change version of generated package.
--bump=number Increment package version by this number.
-h, --help Display this help message.
-V, --version Display alien's version number.
shawn@shawn-laptop:~/OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/RPMS$