First, you'll need to download all rpm-files from the given location (the desktop-integration-packages are not necessecary for testing as well as the testtool package). Next you'll need to open a terminal and cd to the directory the downloaded files are and issue the following command:
"for PKG in *.rpm ; do rpm2cpio ${PKG} | cpio -i -d ; done"
This will unpack the rpm-files. You can start the app by issuing the following command:
PATH_TO_DOWNLOADED_FILES/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice (-writer, -calc, -impress etc.). It will use your ~/.openoffice.org2 config-directory, so please back it up or use a clean account for testing.
Please do not try to make a system-wide-install and do not use them for production - e.g. word-import sometimes is unreliable in this build (but this seems not to be related to the cairotext-patch).
The main reason for this post was to mention the upstream-efforts in coping with this annoying issue, unfortunately it seems like it will not be included in upstream-2.4-release.
So I hope the members of the openoffice.org-scribblers-team will include the above mentioned patch for hardy. (It seems like fedora-cvs has an updated one for the 2.4-line to be included in fedora 9).
First, you'll need to download all rpm-files from the given location (the desktop- integration- packages are not necessecary for testing as well as the testtool package). Next you'll need to open a terminal and cd to the directory the downloaded files are and issue the following command:
"for PKG in *.rpm ; do rpm2cpio ${PKG} | cpio -i -d ; done"
This will unpack the rpm-files. You can start the app by issuing the following command: DOWNLOADED_ FILES/opt/ openoffice. org2.4/ program/ soffice (-writer, -calc, -impress etc.). It will use your ~/.openoffice.org2 config-directory, so please back it up or use a clean account for testing.
PATH_TO_
Please do not try to make a system-wide-install and do not use them for production - e.g. word-import sometimes is unreliable in this build (but this seems not to be related to the cairotext-patch).
The main reason for this post was to mention the upstream-efforts in coping with this annoying issue, unfortunately it seems like it will not be included in upstream- 2.4-release.
So I hope the members of the openoffice. org-scribblers- team will include the above mentioned patch for hardy. (It seems like fedora-cvs has an updated one for the 2.4-line to be included in fedora 9).