Install OpenOffice 2 in Puppy Linux

I installed Puppy onto the hard disk and followed the following instructions from the Puppy forum to convert the OpenOffice rpm files and install them onto Puppy:

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=7938&highlight=openoffice

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rarsa
Joined: 29 May 2005
Posts: 1746
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject: My preferred way for installing OpenOffice in Puppy is the following:

1. Go to the Open Office website and download the latest stable version to an empty folder I prefer to do it outside the pup001 file if you are using one as it is a large install, also make sure that it is not a FAT file system.
2. Extract the file with the following command (use the file name that you downloaded)Code:
tar -xvzf OOo_2.0.2_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz


3. The previous command will extract all the files to a subfolder. Change folders to the RPMS folder under that newly created folder. e.g.Code:
cd cd OOB680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9011/RPMS


4. Extract the RPM files with the following command (all one line)Code:
for FILENAME in *.rpm ; do exec rpm2cpio "$FILENAME" | cpio -i -d; done


5. The previous command will create a opt subfolder and under that an openoffice.org2.0 folder. Move that folder to a final location. Please note that it must be a place with enough space such as your /mnt/home folder. e.g.[code]mv opt/openoffice.org2.0 /mnt/home (Paul's note: I actually moved the files to /root )
6. Create a symbolic link (symlink) to the open office executable. e.g. [code]ln -s /mnt/home/oppenoffice.org2.0/program/soffice /root/my-applications/bin/soffice
7. Execute open office by executing soffice