Re: [SLE] OpenOffice 2.0 AND 2.1



On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 12:42 +0000, Kevanf1 wrote:
> On 30/12/05, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Kai Ponte wrote:
> >
> > > My guess is - like Apache - many people are still using the
> > > depricated version (heck, they're coming out with 6.0 very shortly)
> > > and Novell didn't want to upset anyone.
> >
> > A lot of people don't like being bleeding edge. There are occasionally
> > problems in newer releases that will prevent you from upgrading. I for
> > instance am still running php 4.3.8 because an ancient problem with
> > setlocale():
> > (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31594)
> >
> >
> > /Per Jessen, Zürich
> >
> >
> Ah, could this then be a problem for those using the download version
> of SuSE 10? It does not have Java at all. Yes, it can be downloaded
> from the Jem Report pages

Why from here when there are instructions on the opensuse site to use an
additional YaST repository to install the newer Java version. Sure makes
it a whole lot easier.

--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998


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