OOo 2.0 is out

Crashdamage

Yes, those rpms by default put files toopt-openoffice.org2.0 except the desktop integration rpm (for desktop menus). But you can certainly reallocate them. I tried the following and succeeded:

sudo rpm -Uvh --reallocate=-opt-openoffice.org2.0=-usr-lib-ooo-2.0 *.rpm

So all files go tousr-lib-ooo-2.0 instead ofopr-openoffice.org2.0. Since redhat-fedora rpms put OOo files tousr-lib-ooo-1.0 orusr-lib-ooo-1.1, I think this reallocation makes sense.

I also tried to install the OOo 2.0 rpms first toopt-openoffice.org2.0 then rename the directory toopt-ooo-2.0, and then remove all just-installed rpms (i.e., rpm -e `rpm -qa grep openoffice.org`). This will clear the rpm database but keep the OOo files (now in opt-ooo-2.0). Then you can create it a tar ball and move it to other linux box. This is what I did for my ununtu box. I know I can use alien to convert .rpm to .deb format but I decide that there will be too many package entries for OOo2.0. Note that after I removed the rpms, I can still install the desktopintegration rpm (i.e., the openoffice.org-freedesktop-menus rpm) without dependency problem. Just need to correct the symbolic linketc-openoffice.org-2.0 toopt-ooo-2.0.

For OOo 1.0.x or 1.1.x, there are usually only a few rpms like openoffice.org openoffice.org-libs openoffice.org-i18n. Now for OOo2.0, we have 13 rpms for the core: core01, core02. core03, core03u, core04, core04u, ... core10, ... Why don't they merge all these to a single rpm?

Cheers,

KB