installin an rpm

[ladydi711]

I have a customer request to install the openoffice rpm. My question, is there in risk to conflicts with cpanel or whm?

Thanks in Advance,
Diane

[majoosh]

yes u can install openoffice using the command rpm -ivh <openoffice .rpm>. But when open office is installed it will take up so much memory when loaded.

[Spiral]

You want to install OpenOffice on a web hosting server machine? *PUZZLED*

[chirpy]

Indeed. Considering you should not be running Xwindows on a server anyway, what would be the point of installing openoffice - or did you mean something like opengroupware:
http://www.opengroupware.org/

[ladydi711]

Yes, I know it is an odd request, and I'm looking for good reasons why NOT to do it, but...

Myself and another partner share this server; we have a total of about 50 hosted accounts. My partner is hoping to utilize the server for some application development work. One of the modules runs xvfb as a "headless" server. The app makes calls to openoffice to run a macro that converts documents (from/to what I'm not exactly sure).

It won't be used all the time, and my dedicated server is not hurting much with it's current load.

So, I appreceate the feedback on pros and cons as to doing this.

Neither of us want to put any hurt on our existing hosted customers.

Thanks again,
Diane

[rankris]

I am also looking for an RPM for the same. Which one uou dhould choose for centOs?

[ladydi711]

I ended up getting the openoffice rpm from the Red Hat Network site.

I'm not familiar with CentOS, but you might try here:
http://rpm.pbone.net

Advance Search for openoffice.org by rpm name, and CentOS. There are some there.

[rankris]

Diane ,

thank uuu sooo much.. keep rockinnn

[dave9000]

http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org...&version=3.0.0

This is the download link for the latest linux openoffice rpm