[Leaplist] OpenOffice.org v2.2 released

[Jim Hartley]

Sounds like I may just as well ignore this then. I haven't noticed any 
"annoying focus issues" and I wouldn't know a pivot table if it bit me, 
so I don't guess I need to go for an upgrade that's that much effort.

But I know what you mean about the "purity" issue. I had to go hook up 
to another repository (Livna) to get something that would play MP3's 
because of ... Gasp! ... Shudder! ... Patent Issues!!!! Anybody remember 
"Dr. Strangelove" and all the "Purity of Essence" stuff?

Jim Hartley

Fred Moore wrote:
> Jim Hartley wrote:
>   
>> OK, if I am getting updates to OOo (in fact, just got some updates to
>> OOo a day or two ago) from the Fedora repositories will I get this
>> automatically? Or is this the kind of a major update that I will have
>> to get manually?
>>
>> Still not real familiar with this "update" stuff.
>>
>> Jim Hartley
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> Jim its not quite that simple.. First off the new version of OO requires
> Suns version of JRE not  GNU/Java which Fedora only supports.  Core 6 is
> about a year behind the release even with the latest updates.   If you
> download the 2.2 rpm's from OO directly it will not install because of
> dependencies one being real sun java (just went through that) Google for
> replacing GNU/java with Sun java there are several articles out there
> explaining how to do it.  Its not a simple process but one that anyone
> who can read can accomplish.  I don't know if this breaks anything else
> in core 6 but time will tell.  Also note that parts of OO are disabled
> by default by Fedora on distribution (yea ones that rely on Sun Java). 
> Hopefully Fedora will quit this foolishness now that Sun is open
> sourcing Java.   And before the flames start..  I think it foolish to 
> distribute OO with parts disabled just to be pure..   distribute OO  as
> is with instructions to download JRE..   is the pure way.   This was
> such a pain in the ars.. I am considering dumping core 6 and going back
> to a rpm based distro.. Of course then we have the problem of OO only
> distributing source and rpm's, but there are tools to convert from rpm's
> to deb's.. Fred
>   
>> Damien McKenna wrote:
>>     
>>> OpenOffice.org v2.2 was just released.  Key improvements include:
>>> * Pivot table support for MS Excel files (a biggie)
>>> * An annoying focus issue was fixed
>>>
>>> http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.2.0.html has the full
>>> details.
>>>
>>> --Damien McKenna - Husband, father, geek.
>>> damien at mc-kenna.com - http://www.mc-kenna.com/
>>>
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