Re: [libreoffice-users] Install RPM as non-superuser

Hi,

seems your message has been stripped by the List software, so I'm repeating it 
below for conveniance.

Nino

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Date: Mar 22, 2012; 6:08pm 
From: Reinhard
To: users@global
Subject: Install RPM as non-superuser

Hi all,

I have been using Open/Libre Office under Linux since at least release
1.5, but there was an annoying problem during installation starting with
OpenOffice 2: As a rule, you must be superuser to install it (at least
for the RPM files). This can be critical. Once I had to write some
analysis in a company on a computer without any administrator available.
(It was a Linux machine with the broken OpenOffice 2.0 on it.) Happily,
I knew how to transform all the RPM's to a big tgz archive and carried
OpenOffice 2.1 as tgz with me. For simple usage, you only need the file
tree somewhere (locally), and you must know to call .../program/soffice to
start.

The shell script below does this transformation and expects a tar.gz
archive of RPM's from the official distribution as argument. It is more
or less straightforward but I remember that many people asked in a forum
what to do with alle the RPM's not being superuser (it *is* possible,
but you have to install your own package database). I know that there
are difficulties to offer such tgz packages because of upload speed of
contributors, but it could be possible to run this script on a server
after uploading the packages in recent form..

At least, I think it should be known (and what to do with the file
tree). A guy during the Linux Day in Chemnitz (Germany) recommended me
last weekend to put such instruction to the wiki. Before spamming, I
would like to ask the community if this is worth a wiki entry ... (I
have possibly one more item - a Python class to analyze and modify ODF
files without using LibreOffice, but I think this would be rather a
Python issue).

Best

Reinhard

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#!/bin/bash
# transform LibreOffice-tgz to plain tgz
# Reinhard Wobst, @(#) Mar 20 2012, 14:02:58

case "$1" in
  (*.tar.gz) [[ -f "$1" ]] || { echo "\"$1\" not found!"; exit 1; };;
  ("") echo "missing argument"; exit 1;;
  (*) echo "illegal file name:", $1; exit 1;;
esac

origin=$PWD
tmpdir=$(mktemp -u --tmpdir=.)
mkdir $tmpdir
ln $1 $tmpdir
cd $tmpdir

tar xzf *
pkgname=$(ls | fgrep -v tar.gz)
cd $pkgname
cd RPMS

for i in *.rpm; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -id; done
cd opt
tar czf $origin/${pkgname}_tgz.tar.gz *
cd $origin
rm -rf $tmpdir

echo "*** ${pkgname}_tgz.tar.gz created ***"
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