I'm using StarOffice8, which is rpm-based. On previous installations on other distributions, and on Kubuntu up to 9.04, as long as I had "alien" installed first, and ran as ROOT, the so-8-pp8-bin-linux-en-US.sh installer would run and install StarOffice8 (update 8 ): Calc, Writer, Math, Adabas, Impress, etc. (Often I did it LOGGED IN as root, and maybe I'll try that after editing the kdmrc file.)
With Lucid, even with alien installed, the SO-8 installer fails, telling me I have to use alien to install. OK... I went to /var/tmp/unpack_staroffice/RPMS, to which the installer had extracted 56 .rpm files, and applied alien to them. I was able to get StarOffice Writer to run, but none of the components appear in the applications menu, and when I tried to apply the update to Update 14 even Writer stopped functioning.
There must be a smoother way! Any suggestions?
PS: On 9.04 I was simply able to use "sudo ./so-8-pp8-bin-linux-en-US.sh" after making sure alien was installed. The first time this didn't work was with 9.10, and now it isn't working on 10.04.
With Lucid, even with alien installed, the SO-8 installer fails, telling me I have to use alien to install. OK... I went to /var/tmp/unpack_staroffice/RPMS, to which the installer had extracted 56 .rpm files, and applied alien to them. I was able to get StarOffice Writer to run, but none of the components appear in the applications menu, and when I tried to apply the update to Update 14 even Writer stopped functioning.
There must be a smoother way! Any suggestions?
PS: On 9.04 I was simply able to use "sudo ./so-8-pp8-bin-linux-en-US.sh" after making sure alien was installed. The first time this didn't work was with 9.10, and now it isn't working on 10.04.