kwlam Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I have installed mandriva 2005 LE and together wtih its openoffice 1.1.4. I found it is very slow in starting the open office. Is it any advantage to install the newer version of openoffice such as 2.0? Will it be faster? How to install it? Previously I installed older version of open office and there is no rpm. Now the newer version after unzip, there are a lot of rpm file. Should I install all the rpm package or just the mandriva package? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I wouldn't recommend it. If your current version is slow, version 2 will be even slower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Version 2 is faster but its largely startup seems slow. You can use various pre-loaders so an instance starts in the background when you start X... Search in the add/remove progs. Sorry I don't know what's in the package for Mandriva but you should be able to get OO2 as a urmpi install (I think) you may need to add urpmi sources though... I tend to use koffice for lightweight stuff and only use OO when I need extended functionality unless I already have it open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I wouldn't recommend it. If your current version is slow, version 2 will be even slower. On the contrary, 2.0 should run faster. One of the main things they tried to do with 2.0 was increase speed. When you download the package from the website and extract it, there should be an RPM that has mdk/mdv in the name, use urpmi to install it: urpmi <name-of-file>.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 2.0 runs faster for me... especially opening files etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 OOo2 is faster here, as well. If you want to get it load faster and consume less RAM, don't load at program startup the dictionaries you don't need: kdesu kwrite Open in the OOo's folder the file /share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst and remove any dictionary, thesaurus and speller/hyphenator that you don't explicitly need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 OOo2 runs faster for me too. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 *watches ian go hide in a corner somewhere after everyone told him he's wrong* ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 /me saying nothing :P Honest, it must just be my machine then :D Actually I'm not sure, I had both and both seemed the same, but my machine (work lappy), isn't the best. Celeron 1.8GHz, 512MB RAM, so maybe that's why my machine doesn't behave that well. I'll try on my AMD Athlon XP1800+, 1GB RAM when I get home, since I have the OO2 rpms local from the urpmi trees, and see how it performs there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I have P4 1.8ghz and 512mb RAM, On my system both opening and saving files (I'm working with huge files) seems to be faster on 2.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalex20 Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Recently, I've rebuilt and installed Cooker version of 2.0.2 on my "2006 with lots of recompiled Cooker packages" machine. I'd still refrain from calling its startup fast, but it's a lot faster than 2.0's startup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I can't say I noticed a huge speed improvement with 2.0, but I'm pretty sure it's not slower. About the rpms, no you don't only need the mandriva one, that only contains the menu items. You need to follow the instructions at the openoffice.org site and install all the standard rpms and the mandriva-menus one. So move the mandriva rpm up a directory to join the others and then from there do a urpmi -ivh *.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwlam Posted March 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 If I want to install OOo2. should I uninstall the older version first. I am not good at linux and I usually used rpmdrake. I do not uninstall it, will there be 2 OOo in my system? If I install OOo with rpmdrake, I install the mandriva directory first. Then is it necessary to install all the other with rpmdrake, too? There are many files, indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 you only need to install the mandriva rpm. the rest or for other distributions. you don't have to uninstall the other first, they can coexist on the same system. if there are conflicts, the install program will tell you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwlam Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 I failed to install mandriva menu rpm. It said that it does not satified dependencies openoffice.org-core01. Anybody is successful in installing OOo2 from mandriva2005? Can anybody tell me how to solve the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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