OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 on openSUSE 11.1
OpenOffice 3.0.1 has been released recently and with the 3.0.1 release we got an important feature. That feature is grammar checking. In the enterprise space, this is very important to have another real time method of spell / grammar checking.
With that said, you’re probably wondering how to get it?
Setup the repository (if you don’t have it already)
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.1/ OpenOffice\ Stable
Now make the repository refresh by defailt
sudo zypper mr -r OpenOffice\ Stable
Lastly lets update the packages associated with the package
sudo zypper up -t package -r OpenOffice\ Stable
If this doesn’t work you may have to install the following package:
OpenOffice_org-l10n-en-US
With:
sudo zypper in OpenOffice_org-l10n-en-US
As a bonus this version of OpenOffice (in the said repository) is built without GIO and can open files located on SMB shares / remote locations
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Grammar checker is there from OOo 3.0.0 beta 2 by using languagetool extension. In fact, 3.0.0 final was delayed because a bug in the grammar checker api. But I agree that it works better with 3.0.1
I just tried to update OOffice from the pre-installed OpenSuse11.1 64bit version. I got all sorts of dependency problems telling me I had to uninstall part of the older version, which I did. Result was that OpenOffice would not even start up. I switched back to the original version and will just wait a little longer. (I NEED to use OpenOffice on this machine that’s why I did not waste any time trying more things).
Ich,
You should get 1 dependency error with (damn.. I forget the package). After that you may have to kill your ~/.ooo3.
What error did you get when trying to load? I agree OpenOffice is critical on this machine for daily use also
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Hi Ben,
the error message was something simple and straightforward like “can’t load”. When I started it from the console there was no useful output either. So I tried to reinstall the older version which would no longer start either claiming that some library was missing. So in the end I did kill the ~/.ooo3 and reinstalled the older version and have it running again. Darn, I really wanted to try the newer version but it just taught me once more that one should not change a running system…
No need to kill the user profile!!! Yast miss some dependencies troubles: just look all OOo related packages installed and uninstall those from the old version. If I recall well, there are 4 packages that yast didn’t uninstall (one at least is calle “ure” or something like that).