Open Office Linux RPM or DEB ??
Saturday, June 13th, 2009 at
19:54
I just installed linux mint and i tried downloading open office i found 2 versions DEB and RPM which one gonna work with mint linux
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The .DEB one would be the best one for Linux Mint. You really should install it from your distro's repository if at all possible, though.
Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. You'll want the .deb package. (You can use the .rpm,(redhat) but you'll need alien)
You might just try opening a console and giving it an
#> sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
or maybe just plink it in your synaptic. Mostly the repos have openoffice.
Well I did install Mint recently on my system … and OpenOffice was preinstalled with it … so i dont suppose there is a need to install it unless you have uninstalled it or you are upgrading it
Or if yo have any rpm package you can run the following command to convert them first into DEB ..
1. Install Alien(utility) first
sudo apt-get install alien
2. Convert rpm -> deb
sudo alien -k
3. Install deb file by double clicking or ..
sudo alien dpkg -i
OR
Install package without converting by …
sudo alien -i
Install package without converting by …
sudo alien -i