Upon downloading Apache openoffice 4.0 and opening and starting install, when get to INSTALL with YAST receive this message; “ERROR Following packages haven’t been found on the medium: openoffice4.0-suse-menus” . As this element of ‘suse-menu’ was itself presented for opening by the downloaded suite, clearly it was there, so why is it that YAST can’t read it? What steps can I take to get it to read and install it [re-tried this sequence several times and never could get past this obstacle]?
Support for openSUSE 11.4 ended on Nov-2012 and this being Aug 2013, have you considered doing an upgrade? Why not show us the result of the terminal command:
zypper repos
When you say you downloaded Apache, from where did you download it. Was it an RPM or was it in a repo you have installed? OpenOffice has been replaced by LibreOffice in openSUSE 12.3 and is no longer installable without external help of some sort.
On 08/07/2013 12:56 AM, wiliamvw wrote:
> GoBook IX250 with openSUSE 11.4
-=WELCOME=- new poster!!
i’m assuming you are ready to try something other than the operating
system you are used to…and, want to try it out on that ‘spare’
computer…good idea…except that 11.4 (as others have pointed out
is OLD software and something you wouldn’t wanna run on the internet
until after you had moved the system to Evergreen http://tinyurl.com/4aflkpy (which will continue to provide security
patches until July 2014…it is, by the way the OS i run
everyday…love it)
BUT, i have 1 GB of RAM and even with that and a snappy Atom CPU it
is not the fastest system on the planet (but faster and safer than
the * XP your IX250 came with…
now, OpenOffice 4.0 downloaded from their site is not what you
want…really… instead see if you can uninstall that and then using
YaST Software Management use the search block to search for
libreoffice (a fully free and open version of OpenOffice) and install
that (just click to install exactly “libreoffice” and YaST will
automatically tell you that you need a bunch of other stuff, say YES
to allowing YaST to put in what it knows you should have…
afterwards (if you have enough RAM) i’d expect LibreOffice to “just
work” (it does here, on my 11.4 Evergreen…but, i wouldn’t know if
4.0 is ready enough to run…)
do NOT forget to move to Evergreen…
oh and your “Apache openoffice 4.0” is confusing (to me) because
Apache is a web server…did you install that too?
and, if openSUSE is running too slow for you on that machine then
there are Linux distributions which are fully updated but
designed to run on the weaker machines of yester-year… (have a look
at, for example: Puppy Linux
let us know how you get on…get the right
hardware/software/patience mix and you are gonna like it.
> oh and your “Apache openoffice 4.0” is confusing (to me) because Apache
> is a web server…did you install that too?
Apache is also a license type. When openoffice was “liberated” it was
given to the apache project under their license. So the plain
“openoffice” would be the original one from… (drats! I can’t remember
the name… Oracle?), whereas “apache openoffice” would be the liberated
version. And libreoffice would be the popular port when most devs flied
away from the Oracle umbrella and their licensing issues.
More or less
I don’t know if there is an “Apache OpenOffice” rpms distributed on our
buildservice.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
Downloaded from apache openoffice site with downloads; used Linux, 32 bit, RPM, and with choice of 4 menus picked the suse-menu [which is why I said that this package was surely supplied by the download site]. Had already deleted libreoffice upon install as have always used OO, have ongoing project employing OO, and really resent the elimination of choice of being presented with no option to select OO as my office suite. Hope these details are helpful.
When you download and install an RPM file, you only get what is in the RPM and that is it. If a required file is not found for that RPM, I would assume you would get an error message and the install fail, but no other files will be downloaded for you. Any live repository you have added to openSUSE can suppied required files, if the exist, but often this does not help with an outside RPM install. If you elect to go with OpenOffice, you must download ALL required files as no help with come from a standard repository after the switch to LibreOffice. openSUSE 11.4 is now out of support and any help that might exist will be slim at best. Its the reason I asked for a list of your repos with the terminal command:
zypper repos -u
To see if they still exist, but you failed to supply the requested information.
On 2013-08-08 00:36, wiliamvw wrote:
>
> wiliamvw;2577347 Wrote:
> Downloaded from apache openoffice site with downloads; used Linux, 32
> bit, RPM, and with choice of 4 menus picked the suse-menu [which is why
> I said that this package was surely supplied by the download site].
Well, the correct manner to install a complex software such as OO is to
provide a repository; and you need one for each distribution version.
Our buildservice does just that for us. Otherwise, you have problems
such as you describe, you have to hunt dependencies yourself.
> Had
> already deleted libreoffice upon install as have always used OO, have
> ongoing project employing OO, and really resent the elimination of
> choice of being presented with no option to select OO as my office
> suite. Hope these details are helpful.
Unfortunately (for you) some/many of us consider LibreOffice to be the
real OpenOffice; and as it happens that Novell/SUSE is a sponsor of LO,
you will not find OO distributed here.
Not many people her have even tried Apache OpenOffice - not even the
name is known.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
So you forgot to use the -u option as requested twice and you need to post the result inside of code # tags. The -u gives me the URL to see what is there, if anything. Placing it in code tags keeps it from being formatted.
i’m sure you can see that your output in message # 11 looks nothing
like you saw it in the terminal and not like jdmcdaniel3’s excellent
example in post #10
what jdmcdaniel3 meant by “Placing it in code tags keeps it from
being formatted.” was please follow these instructions when posting
computer output http://goo.gl/i3wnr in these forums…
that way we can read and understand them…(what you posted i [and
many others] won’t spend the time to try . . .
note: i’m not mad, i’m not angry, i’m not expecting you to know how
to do it from birth…that is why i give you the path to the how-to http://goo.gl/i3wnr
William, you’re leaving out important information. As previously requested, wrap the exact results in CODE tags. This is the ‘#’ button in the toolbar in the editor.
On 2013-08-16 04:26, chief sealth wrote:
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> wiliamvw;2579500 Wrote:
…
>> 6.repo-oss…openSUSE-11.4-oss…YES…YES…http
>> 7.repo-source…openSUSE-11.4-Source…NO…YES…http
>>
>
> William, you’re leaving out important information. As previously
> requested, wrap the exact results in CODE tags. This is the ‘#’
> button in the toolbar in the editor.
And complete, no editing, please.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
SOLVED Wish to thank everyone who made input to my problem, and to explain that always providing what was requested was not always feasible for me since I have neither use of electricity nor my own internet connection; accordingly I have to use what can at library and free wifi spots – thus the typed copy of info rather than direct pasting since can’t usually have this old very heavy ruggedized laptop with me.
The install was finally completed when made use of yasts ability to designate a directory as a repository; once I inputted the downloaded and unpacked location of the openoffice4.0 directory location, and designated it as a repository, everything went very smoothly [and since all data/files in this directory used as repository were identical with what was present when kept getting the notice of some missing data, have to wonder just what was going on].
Once again, thanks to all for your efforts.
Bil VERCH-W.
