[Libreoffice] LO: Linux distro specific packages vs. universal build

Petr Mladek pmladek at suse.cz
Fri Oct 15 11:11:16 PDT 2010


Fridrich Strba píše v Čt 14. 10. 2010 v 08:55 -0600:
> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 16:45 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > 2. user configuration:
> > 
> > 	+ ~/.libreoffice/3 - used by the universal linux build
> > 	+ ~/.libreoffice/3-<distro> - proposed alternative 
> >                    distro-specific path, e.g. ~/.libreoffice/3-suse
> > 	I tried to use the same directory but the other build did not
> >         start because incompatible berkley DB, see the attached
> >         screenshot
> 
> Ok, when we were distributing GoOo as OpenOffice_org, we were using
> ~/.ooo3, why not to use something like ~/.libo3 ?

Debian and RedHat installed OOo into /usr/lib/openoffice.org and used
~/.openoffice.org. I decided to go their way and switched
to /usr/lib/libreoffice => we should use "libreoffice" in the home dir
as well => ~/.libreoffice/*

>  Other, long-run task
> could be to use sqlite3 instead of Oracle-owned berkeley db :)

:-)

Best Regards,
Petr



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