[ooo-build] PCLinuxOS

[espinosa_cz]

On 09/02/10 14:38, Steve Brettell wrote:
> I am running PCLinuxOS.  I like it, but it seems to have some quirks.  I
> was running Ubuntu, but the sound issue became too irritating to me.
> Be that as it may. . .
> I have heard many good things about GoOo, and would like to try it.
> PCLinuxOS doesn't handle rpm files very easily, and I'm not very
> sophisticated about computin'.
> Can someone make a suggestion as to how to install GoOo on my computer?
>
> Thank you,
> SteveB
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PCLinuxOS is a normal Madriva based distro, fork of Mandriva, hence use 
rpms as package format, it uses APT and Synaptic as their prime package 
managers. GoOo repository use repo-md format for repository metadata 
(introduced by yum, but now spread beyond and it aspires for universal 
format). Apt uses it own native older repo metadata format, which is 
incompatible, however there is patch for Apt to support repo-md format 
too. Suse had such though was quite buggy but I tested it years ago. 
Probably you will not find this in Debian/Ubuntu versions of Apt but in 
rpm distributions it is more likely.

a) Give a try to Synaptic/Apm. Add GoOo repo as a normal package source.

b) Play it safe, install Smart PM (gui) and yum (backend) and add GoOo 
repo as a channel. Smart is sort of similar to Synaptic but it can 
handle multiple backends (yum, urpmi, rpm, apt, ..)

These are smart ways, they save you from downloading unnecessary files 
and keep your OOo updated.

Cheers
Espinosa