Month: January 2020

OpenOffice Manual Install

  • Download deb .tar.gz file
    e.g: Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.7_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-GB.tar.gz
  • Extract it to a temporary directory
    tar xf Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.7_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-GB.tar.gz
  • Make a subdirectory to extract the deb files to and cd to it.
    mkdir tmp
    cd tmp
  • Run the following script to extract the contents of every deb file:
for file in find ../*.deb
 do
   ar -xv "$file"
   tar xf data.tar.gz
   rm -f data.tar.gz control.tar.gz debian-binary
 done
  • Move opt/openoffice4 to /opt/
    sudo mv ./opt/openoffice4 /opt/
  • Run /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice

You could now create a .desktop file and set its icon.

Solus Linux – Repo change

Swapping out the Solus repo from https to http so we can cache it in a local server.

$ eopkg lr
 Solus [active]
    https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/eopkg-index.xml.xz
$ sudo eopkg ar solus http://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/eopkg-index.xml.xz
Repo solus added to system.
 Updating repository: solus
 eopkg-index.xml.xz.sha1sum     (40.0  B)100%      2.96 MB/s [00:00:00] [complete]
 eopkg-index.xml.xz             (2.3 MB)100%    328.90 KB/s [00:00:01] [complete]
 Package database updated.
$ sudo eopkg rr Solus
Repo Solus removed from system.