On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:15:59 +0800 David Nelson <commerce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, :-) > > There is a download of LibreOffice 3.3 beta 3 at: > > http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/3.3.0-beta3/rpm/x86/LibO_3.3.0_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz > > There are no instructions about how to install it, and I want to draft > a how-to to be included with the download. > > However, I'm an Ubuntu user and I'm not familiar with installing rpm's > any more. Could anyone help me out with precise instructions for > Fedora Core so that the LibO community's newbie users have chance of > success? Note that it's just "Fedora" now since Fedora 7. ;) Sure, I'll take a stab... > To provide a framework, here are the instructions applicable to > Debian Ubuntu: This step is the same: > "1) When you unpack the downloaded archive, you will see that the > contents have been decompressed into a directory called "en-US". Open > a terminal window, and change directory to the "en-US" directory. This step the dir is called 'RPMS': > 2) The "en-US" directory contains a subdirectory called "DEBS". Change > directory to the directory "DEBS". This should be: su -c 'yum install *.rpm' > 3) Then run this command (you will be prompted to enter your root > user's password): > > sudo dpkg -i *.deb This step doesn't appear to be needed, there is no desktop-integration directory for the rpm based install... > 4) dpkg does the first part of the installation process. Now change > directory to the "desktop-integration" directory that is within the > "DEBS" directory. Run the dpkg command again: > > sudo dpkg -i *.deb > > The installation process is now completed, and you should have icons > for all the LibreOffice applications in your Applications/Office > menu." > > Could someone edit the above instructions to work for Fedora Core? A > big thanks in advance for any help... ;-) Thats a first stab at it. Hopefully some other folks can try it and expand on it. kevin
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