[Libreoffice-qa] Introduction

[Michael Stahl]

hi Howard,

great to see somebody interested in doing QA!

On 04/09/13 09:33, Florian Reisinger wrote:
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> Hi Howard,
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> We are very happy, that you are going to help us doing QA.
> So here some points from my side (if I am wrong, anyone please correct):
> - -We do not have a deb master, rpm master can be found online:
> http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Linux-x86-64@8-SLED11/current/

just to mention it again the RPMs can be installed on any Linux system,
on Ubuntu it is just "apt-get install rpm" and then you can use the
script attached here[1] to install the lot in an arbitrary directory
that has its own UserInstallation profile (without impacting any distro
LO packages you may have).  oh actually i just downloaded the RPMs from
there and the install script is even conveniently bundled right in there
as ./LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.alpha0_Linux_x86-64_rpm/install.

[1]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/2011-November/000393.html

PS: does anybody know if there is some official QA wiki page to which
the above can be added, or did somebody add it already?   i feel like a
broken record :)

PPS: Fedora 19 is currently affected by a bug in rpm that prevents using
this script so ironically it may even work better on .deb based distros :-/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001553