Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:21:08AM +0000, Sveinn í Felli wrote:
> It's quite surreal to see some power users/developers not seeing or
> refusing to see that the whole concept of the software in question
> IS a big metaphor: Office.

Wrong, I do see it.

> And its users are using GUIs and other metaphors for handling the
> software; for even the most capable of them the CLI is at best
> scary.

Correct, they are *users* _of the office_. For that I agree, they don't
need to worry. For people *installing* the office and thus effectively
*asministering* their system it *does* matter.

> And the sysadmins I've been working with are normally too overloaded
> to remember upgrading manually the LibO/OOo packages on their
> systems (my language is not yet in the official distribution
> channels). They want their software to come through official and
> reliable repositories.
> So it took about 30 minutes of searching and fiddling to create a
> Packages.gz file and publishing the packages as our localised .deb
> repository. Think it's similar for other flavors like yum .rpm.
> Still I'd like a primary metapackage so we could install/deinstall
> ONE package instead of the whole bunch.

You can trivially create one if you have the above in a Packages.gz
anyways.

> Anyway, I presume LibO will not be distributed this way in the
> future, 'dpkg -i *.deb' or 'rpm -ivh *.rpm' will be reserved for
> testing/development/adventurous people.
> Linux users will get their LibreOffice through their package
> managers, probably via distribution specific repositories. I think I

Exactly.

Grüße/Regards,

René

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