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From: Rogerio Luz Coelho <luz.rogerio@gmail.com>
To: documentation@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sat, 21 May, 2011 20:16:45
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Assistance with
libreoffice.org/get-help/installation?
2011/5/21 David Nelson <commerce@traduction.biz>
Hi,
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 21:07, Rogerio Luz Coelho <luz.rogerio@gmail.com> > wrote:
> Ok, now that was a nice feedback, I am correct in thinking that we will
> abandon this project and start a new one?
Well, maybe not "abandon", but how about re-write and simplify? Maybe
a separate instruction set for each major Linux/Unix distrib? Anybody
got any bright ideas?
The thing is that there are literally HUNDREDS of Distros that consider
themselves "major" Linux Distros.
We should try one of two approaches:
1) Do the .deb and .rpm pages and maybe a openSUSE specific page and leave
all the rest to their own distro-specific support , and maybe ask for a nice
packaged source installer to cover anything else from the the devs.
2) Expect that anyone can install from their repos, and let the developers
that need to install from packages/source to their own luck (after all they
*are* developers)
Either way I think (and that is why I stopped working on the file and on the
installation wiki page) that this is work with no future. All major distros
have LibO in their repos, and people trying to test the RC releases have
managed to install them in their systems with-without-despite our futile
efforts to make available install instructions.
Rogerio
Hi
+1
Installing from the repos is easy and it's covered by each distro's own
documentation separately. We could cover all the distros simply by saying
"LibreOffice can be installed using the distro's package manager."
For more advanced installs just covering Yum, Rpm, Deb & tarballs covers almost
all distros. Although there are about 600 distros they all tend to use the same
packages, the same package-managers and the same methods.
As for compiling from Source Code i have a feeling that is the same in every
distro and the same in BSD too?
Regards from
Tom