Open Office 4 installation Centos 6
At 57 million downloads to date it is set to become a significant fixture
on many Linux Desktops. It is ideally suited to the Centos 6 Minimal Fluxbox Desktop due to its flexibilty and ease of integration. OO4 is a major update to previous versions and contains a number of improvements, taking it off at a considerable tangent from it's LibreOffice origins. Language support is now at 22 languages and there have been 500 bug fixes (thats a lot of bugs), enhancements to drawing/graphics and performance along with improved Microsoft Office interoperabilty. A new logo is incorporated as a result of a contest among talented designers which resulted in a shortlist of 40 logos. Other new features include the Sidebar UI, on permanent loan from IBM's Lotus Symphony with a few adaptations for improved performance on widescreen displays, a media player and a gallery, new color pallete, new gradients, support for graphic bullets for MS Word, special numbering retention for ppt files, pie chart height for Excel files, formula/name range support in chart data and numerous other enhancements The built in Media Player is useful if you don't have one already and could easily be your main player if necessary. The codecs needed to run most files can be obtained as below. You will need the RPMForge repo, first obtain openoffice-4.0 from http://www.openoffice.org/download/ Extract the files, then move in to the RPMS directory and install all the rpms $ sudo rpm -Uvh *.rpm Then from the desktop-integration directory select the freedesktop package. Codecs. $ sudo rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm $ sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo and disable it by default or try set priority = 10 $ sudo yum -y --enablerepo=rpmforge install compat-libstdc++-33 libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd libquicktime flash-plugin mplayer mplayer-gui gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly W32codecs 32bit $ sudo wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm $ sudo wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm 64bit $ sudo wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.x86_64.rpm $ sudo wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.x86_64.rpm $ sudo rpm -Uvh *.rpm
FFmpeg
$ sudo yum -y --enablerepo=rpmforge install ffmpeg More repos . |
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