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jrb · #21 Post by **jrb** » Sat 20 Dec 2008, 18:28

Hi All,
Not to confuse the matter, but recently I tried a third way of installing OO3.0 in my puppy412 frugal.

I downloaded the openoffice-3.0.0.sfs file and took a look inside. Noticing that the program was in the /opt folder I looked in puppy's opt folder and saw only /opt/samba which contained no symlinks. So I copied /opt to my /mnt/home, deleted the /opt from puppy and symlinked /mnt/home/opt to /opt.

I then copied the /usr and /root from openoffice-3.0.0.sfs to / and copied the /opt from openoffice-3.0.0.sfs to /mnt/home merging it with the one I had copied earlier. After the fixmenus command and restarting jwm everything worked, swriter, scalc, etc. This is essentially a harddrive install of openoffice using no extra ram or pup_save space.

#22 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Sat 20 Dec 2008, 19:30

@gymnart
What is your answer to this suggestion?
In my opinion you should try to diagnose the normal procedure instead of loosing efforts in a non standard way of operating.

Lobster · #23 Post by **Lobster** » Sat 20 Dec 2008, 23:05

Had tremendous difficulty just finding a link to a SFS for OO3
So including this
right click and save as or use the link with pwget (in Puppy)

http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/jb4x4/Open ... ce-3.0.sfs
http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/jb4x4/Open ... fs.md5.txt

OpenOffice-3.0.sfs - 159 M
md5sum - 2f8d4e99805a8f929d664c6f60a9d2f9 OpenOffice-3.0.sfs

#24 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Sat 20 Dec 2008, 23:15

Good to see Caneri's server is up again.

gymnart · #25 Post by **gymnart** » Sun 21 Dec 2008, 21:45

Success at last (I think)
I finally got it to work. I mounted my USB stick and clicked on the OpenOffice .sfs and then looked around its directory and followed the /opt/openoffice.or3/program/ path. I then found soffice and sbase, etc, and tried clicking on one of those. It worked! This was the path:
/mnt/+mnt+home+OpenOffice-3.0.sfs/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

I ended up copying everything from OpenOffice3.sfs folders that are on my usb stick into Puppy's /opt (which jrb mentioned, only had Samba in it) so now my new desktop start icon works. Obviously, I have less room on my stick now.

Sit Heel Speak · #26 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Sun 21 Dec 2008, 22:56

gymnart wrote:Obviously, I have less room on my stick now.

If it works from boot to boot, and I believe it will, you can move Openoffice30_412.sfs off the stick and regain most of the lost space. You can increase the size of your pup_save.2fs file by using Menu--> Utility -->Resize personal storage file.

#27 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Sun 21 Dec 2008, 23:04

Gymnart.
You didn't follow my advice to diagnose thoroughly why the sfs file didn't load at boot.

Now you will be in trouble if you have to update OOo to another version, but it's your choice.

Evil20071 · #28 Post by **Evil20071** » Sun 21 Dec 2008, 23:58

I'm going to make a .pet of the current version. I see enough of wanting one here. I'll post it up in a bit.

gymnart · #29 Post by **gymnart** » Mon 22 Dec 2008, 18:44

@ Béèm
I've been thinking about it and I'm wondering if it has anything to do with mounting the usb stick. When I boot into Puppy, I see one yellow icon for the stick (sdb1). I remember I used to see 2 icons with the stick, one yellow and one green, but not anymore.
I found that I have to manually mount the stick in order to get OpenOffice to work directly from the sfs file. Sometimes, it just "hangs" (does nothing but shows the splash screen.)

Now that I have installed it by having copied the contents of /opt from the sfs file to Puppy's /opt folder, OpenOffice opens quickly without trouble.

By the way, the stick is formatted as vfat.

#30 Post by MU » Tue 23 Dec 2008, 18:47

the english one is here:
http://puppyisos.org/isos/Muppy008.4c/English/Mini/
But it also is around 200 MB.
Password see my former message.

Mark

richard.a · #31 Post by **richard.a** » Wed 24 Dec 2008, 11:29

Evil20071 wrote:I'm going to make a .pet of the current version. I see enough of wanting one here. I'll post it up in a bit.

That would actually be fantastic. Could you also do a dot.pup as a special favour perhaps?

I use an early version of OOo 2 (2.0.4) installed (rather than as an .sfs) on a number of early boxes for community use, mostly with 192 or 256 megs of SD RAM as part of either Live-CD or a type 2 HDD installation using my own developed version of 2.02R2 (with JWM menu more like Windows to assist users in migration, and floating button bars) and it would be nice to be able to offer ver 3 to take advantage of updates.

OOo installs to /usr/local/openoffice.org2.0

My updated version of 202R2 (which I call r2d2 of course!) also uses Firefox 2.0.0.15 (as opposed to 1.5) so there is currently no difficulty in its updating automatically when it asks to do so. The two key applications then are relatively up-to date compared with other earlier versions.

Look forward to hearing if you can help here.

sideburns · #32 Post by **sideburns** » Mon 29 Dec 2008, 06:53

I'm using the OpenOffice I found here on an old laptop with 96Meg, and it works just fine. However, AutoCorrect doesn't. I'm presuming that the needed dictionaries aren't there. Does anybody know where to find them?

Evil20071 · #33 Post by **Evil20071** » Mon 29 Dec 2008, 07:07

richard.a wrote:
Evil20071 wrote:I'm going to make a .pet of the current version. I see enough of wanting one here. I'll post it up in a bit.
That would actually be fantastic. Could you also do a dot.pup as a special favour perhaps?

I use an early version of OOo 2 (2.0.4) installed (rather than as an .sfs) on a number of early boxes for community use, mostly with 192 or 256 megs of SD RAM as part of either Live-CD or a type 2 HDD installation using my own developed version of 2.02R2 (with JWM menu more like Windows to assist users in migration, and floating button bars) and it would be nice to be able to offer ver 3 to take advantage of updates.

OOo installs to /usr/local/openoffice.org2.0

My updated version of 202R2 (which I call r2d2 of course!) also uses Firefox 2.0.0.15 (as opposed to 1.5) so there is currently no difficulty in its updating automatically when it asks to do so. The two key applications then are relatively up-to date compared with other earlier versions.

Look forward to hearing if you can help here.

I can try to. I'm trying to clear off my 4gb flash drive so I can do my compiling and stuff on it, since I am having some issues getting the devx to work with my full install. Probably oging to have to add some space to my Puppy partition and pray that I don't kill Windows in the process. Sorry it's taking so long. I have like 4 projects going on at once. Also, doing this with a .pet will probably take a ton of space as well, just a fair warning.

bc272 · #34 Post by **bc272** » Sun 13 Feb 2011, 20:02

New to forum, hopefully this helps. Sounds like she is trying to start the program but it isn't in the menu. Find the program in the file by going to top level of file system using green arrow, there in the top folder is Opt. (I use the variation go-office but should be similar.), Open opt folder to find office g3 something folder, then find program folder, find soffice.bin and hold down left button of mouse and drag the soffice.bin icon to the desktop, this will leave a shortcut there. Now can click that to start the program.

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