Re: [Libreoffice] Build install for DEBS

On Fri Jan 14 2011 01:03:13 GMT-0800 (PST)  Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 19:24 -0800, Andy Brown wrote:
> > I have been able to download and build the main branch for LibO.  Could 
> > some kind soul tell me how, or point me to a wiki page, to build the deb 
> > packages so that I can install on another Ubuntu machine?
>
>         Great news :-) if you have lots of Linux machines, I hope you're using
> icecream to harness that build horsepower for faster parallel builds.

I only have two Linux machines.  One is quite a bit aged.  I have no 
idea what icecream is but will look it up and see if it will work.

>         Anyhow - LibreOffice is quite an unusual package; a developer install
> is entirely re-locatable; so if you have run:

>         ooinstall <directory>
>
>         you should be able to just copy that directory to another location or
> another machine, and it should just work :-) [ assuming you compiled on
> the oldest (version wise) distribution ].

I will try that.

>         Of course; clean, distro packaging is a different matter, best to poke
> Rene or Doko about that.
>
>         HTH,
>
>                 Michael.

Maybe they will see this and drop me a note.

Greatly,
Andy