S. Fishpaste wrote on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:46:58 -0500:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:28:26 -0600, BillW50 in comp.sys.laptops wrote:
>> In news:slrnhlp2pv.on1.SDA@laptop.sweetpig.dyndns.org,
>> S. Fishpaste typed on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:029 -0500:
>>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:11:56 -0600, BillW50 in comp.sys.laptops wrote:
>>>> If so, does your spell checker work? I thought maybe my Linux
>>>> installation was corrupt, so I did a reinstall from the DVD. Nothing
>>>> changed at all. It claims everything I type is spelled correctly.
>>>> <sigh>
>>> Well one can download dict files from OOo you know. ;-D
>> That may be, but installing them is a different matter.
>
> Care to elaborate on what you've actually tried? Sorry if you
> mentioned it earlier on; I just started following.
>
> Sometimes and I have done this in the past; Upstream's versions are
> newer then the distro in use. Downloading and installing from the
> Upstream source tree sometimes is desired. First have you downloaded
> the dict files from OOo and installed them or just tried with your
> distribution files?
I downloaded OpenOffice 3.1.1 for Linux RPM and when I go to install it,
I get the following error message.
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Checksumming...
Extracting ...
/home/user/My Documents/OO Install/setup: line 246: rpm2cpio: command
not found
cpio: premature end of archive
find: usr: No such file or directory
basename: missing operand
Try `basename --help' for more information.
/dev/pts/0
Error: Failed to extract the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) files. (exit
code 7)
Press <ENTER> to continue...
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I tried downloading it again on a Windows XP machine running IE7. But
the server doesn't like IE7. As it is slow and spotty. Trying again with
Firefox and that is downloading fine so far. So I'll try installing it
again.
I also noticed that this Linux machine (which I just freshly
reinstalled) only downloads at half of the speed of my Windows machines.
Nor is Linux very good in the multimedia department. I see a big
difference in performance on the machines that I run both Windows and Linux.
Now I am getting:
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basename: extra operand `Install/update'
Try `basename --help' for more information.
dirname: extra operand `Documents/OO'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
basename: extra operand `Install/update'
Try `basename --help' for more information.
Press <ENTER> to continue...
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Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03)