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

In most cases, I do compile from source.  It is the safest way to make 
sure the dependencies are there and the resulting package works on my 
system.  However, the last time I built OpenOffice (admittedly a *long* 
time ago), it took over 3 hours on a 1.5 GHz Athlon machine.  Now the 
latest LO, being larger, will most likely take even longer.  As a 
result, I just repackage the downloaded LO binaries (rpms).  Obviously, 
compiling from source is not for everybody.
Girvin Herr


On 10/09/2013 01:52 AM, Anthony Easthope wrote:
> But I like compiling from source complains the battle scared OS
> pioneer!
>
> [1]http://lifehacker.com/398611/how-to-compile-software-from-source-cod
> e
>
>
>
> 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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> Anthony Easthope
>
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