Hi Dean!
Am 14.06.2026 um 10:34 schrieb Dean Webber:
Dear all,
Would be great to have access to AOO from the package manager. Perhaps it is
straightforward to create a repo?
A quick search found a guide
at,https://wiki.deimos.fr/creating-a-debian-repository/
Seems a few commands to create the files, then the repo can be hosted somewhere
on the server. I believe this would be helpful and enable another pathway for
access to AOO and updates.l
In order to do this within ASF project resources, we would need to think
on our release process.
We would need to restructure the files in folders.
|https://downloads.apache.org/openoffice/ ├── 4.1.15/ (existing release
tarballs/installers) ├── deb/ (NEW - Debian/Ubuntu apt repo) │ ├──
dists/ │ ├── pool/ │ └── apacheoo.gpg └── rpm/ (NEW -
Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE repo) ├── repodata/ └── x86_64/|
And we could then advice :
|# Debian/Ubuntu deb https://downloads.apache.org/openoffice/deb stable
main # Fedora/RHEL baseurl=https://downloads.apache.org/openoffice/rpm/|
Since our download page still points to sf.net, we would not need to
change files there.
If we want to do this we should provide PRs to guru and AUR, because
they need new locations. I am not aware of other install resources that
use download links.
We should think about if we need to produce all language installers for
Linux, or if we could do some nice dependency definition that you must
download a language file, saving download space.
If people download per package manager that would simplify thing a lot.
At this stage I am still learning, and in the process of a few things that
should help improve my understanding.
But making progress. Slow as it may be, progress is progress.
Faithfully,
Dean
