Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

But I like compiling from source complains the battle scared OS
pioneer!

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On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, at 04:02 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

> Hi :)

> I suspect that a lot of your concerns and more besides are shared by
the

> LO devs and in some cases by the companies they work for.

>

> My guess is that is part of the reason we don't already have 1-click

> installers.  We already have at least 2 systems that work (repos and

> copy&paste from instructions) so there is nothing driving them to
produce

> some hasty bodge in the "release early and release often" style.

> Another, slightly wilder, guess is that you might need to do 1 extra
step

> = such as unzipping a container-file (as we can do with .odt files).

>

> This whole topic, about 1-click installers, is a "chinese whisper"
(not

> sure why the Chinese get the blame for it as we all do it).  It would
be

> better for one or 2 of us to contact the devs to initially find out

> 1.  If there is a plan or vague idea to create 1-click installers for
the

> 3 or 4 ways of packaging such things for Gnu&Linux (maybe and Bsd?)

> If there is then 2 follow-up questions arise

> 2.  How imminent are such plans?  Soon or years away?

> 3.  Are compiled binaries going to be available? (perhaps in .deb or
.rpm

> form for people to repackage for various distros such as Slackware
(or

> use tools such as the alien thing))

>

> At the moment we are all just making guesses based on something that
1

> person thinks they might vaguely remember having heard or read about
some

> time ago.  With no proof or links to anything to suggest that vague

> memory has any basis in fact.  Errr, that 1 person was me so i deeply

> apologise for that and for not intervening sooner [hangs head in
shame]

> [shuffles feet]

>

> Apols and regards from

> Tom :)

>

>

>

> ________________________________

> From: Girvin Herr <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net>

> To: users@global.libreoffice.org

> Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 0:35

> Subject: Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins:

> (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

>

>

> <snip />

>

> Of course, I could always compile the source

> code, but that can be another can of worms and it takes a lot longer
to

> compile LO than to just repackage the already compiled binary.  I am
not

> sure what your definition of "distro" is in your reply above.  It
could

> mean the LO distro or the Linux distro, in my case Slackware.

>

> <snip />

>

> Generally, such package installers need to be run as root and that is
a

> no-no with me.

>

> <snip />

>

> Take care.

>

> Girvin Herr

>

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