Idea #8203: Make OpenOffice 3.0 development version ppa repository

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Written by ubuntu4fun the 7 May 08 at 23:41. Category: Office.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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OpenOffice.org 3.0 is sheduled to be released in September.
Today a beta version of the project was released with a lot of long awaited features:

http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html

Beta version for various OS can be downloaded here:

http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/

OpenOffice is one of the most important OpenSource and Free Software and it's vital part of Ubuntu.

I suggest to create a ppa repository for OpenOffice 3.0 development version in order to test it thoroughly before the final release.

Similar ppa repositories for AbiWord 2.6 and many other smaller projects have already been created for Ubuntu.

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peterjs wrote on the 8 May 08 at 03:46

Ubuntu (Canonical) doesn't create or manage PPAs (Personal Package Archives), the PPAs are managed by their creators. I support the idea of someone creating an OOo 3.0 PPA, but this doesn't address the issue of which someone.

+0 until a maintainer is named.

medigeek wrote on the 8 May 08 at 09:08

I agree, it needs a maintainer for backports or ppa :)
You could wait for the next release in october for the stable 3.0, or join the intrepid release? They'll probably have in the archives of the release that's under development

atomant wrote on the 10 May 08 at 20:23

Actually once you've got it installed, it has an update manager. The thing that should be done is adding a seperate installation instruction for the beta. Something like:

Enter the DEBS directory and run
sudo dpkg -i *.debs
You can find the executables under /opt/openoffice.org3/program/

peterjs wrote on the 14 May 08 at 21:38

@atomant

And we could call it ports! And you could update the available deb packages using rsync!

Also third party update managers work fine in windows where there are little to no permissions and no central package management, but on a linux system that's just asking for trouble.

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