OpenOffice.org 1.1.1
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System Requirements
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This build was made on a stock YDL 3.0 distribution with gcc 3.2.2
and glibc-2.3.1-51a It will therefore require a late glibc 2.3.1 or
glibc-2.3.2 based distribution (such as YDL 3.0, Debian with glibc-2.3.2
or latest Mandrakesoft system) to work properly.
Users of YDL 2.X and older distributions should upgrade to
glibc-2.3.2 in order to install and use this binary.
You will also need over 300 meg of free disk space for the installer and
installation.
Disclaimer
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Please note the usual warnings and disclaimer apply:
OpenOffice.org is under continuous development and
comes with no warranty of any kind.
This binary is simply provided "as is" as a service to
the PPC Linux community in case they can not or do
not want to create their own binaries.
Please do not use this piece of software and then
complain that you "lost everything".
For more info on the status of OpenOffice.org,
please see http://www.openoffice.org
Special PPC Linux Specific Additions
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This build is NOT a stock build of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1.
This PPC Linux build includes some special additions added by
me to help improve the OOo experience and make it more comparable
to using OpenOffice.org on Windows and or x86 Linux.
These additions are NOT part of standard OpenOffice.org.
They are detailed below:
1. This build includes the addition of crimson.jar, xalan.jar,
and xml-apis.jar all from the Apache Jakarta project. They were
added to allow the PPC Linux Blackdown JDK 1.3.1 to correctly handle
JDK 1.4.X features used in the FlatXML filter and other java projects.
Please check out the Apache Jakarta website for license details,
source code, and etc.
2. This build includes patches to support MacOSX Panther builds that
have not been included in the official tree yet (I make MacOSX
Panther release builds as well from the same tree). These patches
are available from me and should be approved and in place when
OOo 1.1.2 is released.
3. This build includes a developmental version of FontOOo.sxw and
msfontextract modules that provide a nice AutoPilot interface to
downloading and installing MicroSoft Web Fonts from sourceforge
which provide metrically compatible fonts that greatly improve
cross-platform compatibility and layout when exchanging Microsoft
Office documents. This code has not yet been approved by Sun
or OpenOffice.org but is pending approval. All patches are
available from me and should be in place and approved when
OOo 1.1.2 is released. To use this new feature simple go
File->AutoPilot->FontOOo from the Writer.
4. This build includes a patch to allow building on Kernel 2.6
which is needed since signahl handling has changed.
This patch is available from me
5. This build includes a patched set of Mozilla xpcom
libraries and runtime to allow partial integration between
OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla address book. These files
have not been committed to the OOo tree since they really
represent Binary files that just bloat the source code download.
Copies of these zipped Mozilla components are available from me.
Future versions of OOo will use a source code based build of
Mozilla (at least partially) to prevent the need for binary
collections in the source tree. Instructions and patches
are available to build these direct from source yourself on
www.openoffice.org in the Issuezilla database.
Quick Install Instructions
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Please see the included SETUP_GUIDE.pdf for full
information on how to install.
This install has 2 phases:
Phase 1, by root (must have X11 running)
tar -zxf OOo_1.1.1_LinuxPowerPC_en_installer.tar.gz
cd OOo_1.1.1__LinuxPowerPC__en_installer
chown -R root:root ./
./setup -net
This will allow you to select your destination directory
and install custom modules over and above the normal
standard install.
Phase 2, by each user
(Please first see the Desktop Integration Note below)
After phase 1 is over, each interested user
must cd to the *installed* location
(assumes root installed into /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.1)
cd /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.1/
./setup
And follow the prompts and select a "Workstation" install
and remember to select your jdk installation location.
To run OpenOffice cd to your $HOME and into
OpenOffice.org1.1.1 and run the startup script:
./soffice
Setting Up a Printer and Adding Fonts
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To set things up for your printer:
cd ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.1/
./spadmin
The create a New Printer and pick the correct printing
command, postscript printer description file (ppd), etc
Desktop Integration
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Desktop integration for KDE will work but requires the generation
of a proper symlink in .kde PRIOR to doing the Phase 2 setup.
cd $HOME/.kde/share
ln -s applink-redhat applink
Known Issues
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There are no PPC specific known issues at this time.
Please see the release notes for OOo 1.1.1 from
http://www.openoffice.org/ to see which bugs and fixes
have been made.
Hope you find this useful.
Kevin