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mibadt

Member

Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 396

Open Office instllation failed

Hi,
Yesterday I did a fresh 32b Net installation of Arch without problems and proceeded with installing X, KDE, yaourt, firefox, thunderbird and vlc.
So far so good.

Than I ran (as root) yaourt -S openoffice.

At that stage it began downloading about 19 MB (if I remember correctly) of dependencies, and than continuously downloaded for about 8 hours!, all the times several lines like the following rolling down. I watched it as it proceeded, and my / partition got almost filled at  10 GB (fresh net install without older packages).

Line example:

A DEV300_m42/path to various files

Eventually, I stopped it (CTRL-Z) and rebooted. During reboot it took several seconds of "removing leftover files" and finally I logged in to find my root now occupies only a reasonable 4.4. GB.

My questions:
1. What was I actually doing? What's the meaning of the lines beginning with "A    DEV300..."?
2. How do I install openoffice?

Thanks!

Last edited by mibadt (2009-11-20 01:32:28)

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Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,672

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Re: Open Office instllation failed

Have you fully updated your system?  Older versions of pacman/libdownload had issues with not fully stable internet connections.

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AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,642

Re: Open Office instllation failed

2. How do I install openoffice?

pacman -Syu && pacman -S openoffice-base

Don't play with unsupported AUR (yaourt) stuff when you don't know what is going on!

Infin1ty

Member

From: Israel

Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 42

Re: Open Office instllation failed

You probably started to build the openoffice pack instead of downloading the binaries.
building openoffice can take like an half day, depends on your computer specs so that's what you probably ran into.

axel668

Member

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 168

Re: Open Office instllation failed

Hi mibadt !

If you use yaourt, it's best to start out with "yaourt openoffice" - this will give you a list of all packages matching openoffice, official and community repository 1st, AUR down the list. if something is in the repos, you take it from the repos, as Andy already stated ...

If something is NOT in the repos, you can try AUR. There's also binary packages in AUR (usually for closed source stuff like opera browser or citrix client), often (but not always) labeled as "-bin".

If you REALLY want to build things from source, yaourt is a hit or miss affair - it works, or it doesn't ...

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