On (22/06/03 23:13), Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:07:28PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > >My only comment on the process is that I didn't really know what I was > >doing. I think I'll write up some notes that may help people who, like > >me, don't know much ;) > > You installed packages bu hand ;)
Oh right ;) My memory is fading fast and I've not done the notes, as yet. I still have a long list of tasks to get my systems where I need them but having OOo working now is a great step forward. > > >I'll continue for a while with 1.0.3 until I feel brave enough to take > >on the challenge of 1.1. I downloaded everything bar something.udeb in > >the glibc folder and everything in the jdk folder. I suspect I didn't > >need ncsd, should I remove it? Also I seem to have installed some sort > >of webserver in the process - if I run top there is a daemon thttpd > >running, is this a coincidence or have I installed it inadvertantly? > > what you need are the libc6 packages and locales and libc6-dev. The > othere not really needed. NSCD ist needed, if you are running it :) > > If you installed these packages, you can install OpenOffice.org with > dpkg and runn it ;) Working on the premise that "if it ain't broke don't fix it" I shall stick for now - at least until I've got my network thoroughly sorted and Apache, PHP and MySQL talking together. Thanks for all the help Clive
