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So, my problem is that I like Puppy but I need Open Office. Is there a Puppy version that combines both?

Does it make sense to do this? Does OO slow Puppy down?

Have a look at this puppy derivative.

I use Puppy 4.0 and installed OO3.0 separately. Wasn't too difficult and everything works well.

PalapaGuy wrote:So, my problem is that I like Puppy but I need Open Office. Is there a Puppy version that combines both?

Does it make sense to do this? Does OO slow Puppy down?

I run OO 3 under Puppy 4.12. There are PETs of OO 2.3 and 3.0 available. (If you need the ability to read/write the newest MS Office files, you need OO 3.)

It runs well enough. I'm running Puppy on an old Fujistsu Lifebook with 256MB of RAM and a slow HD, so OO takes a bit to load, but once up, things work fine.

The question is whether you need OO, or whether AbiWord and Gnumeric will meet your needs. What are you doing that requires OO?
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Dennis

Search for OpenOffice in Puppy Search.

You should find OpenOffice squash files and pet files, if you do not know how to use these, search for squash (or sfs) file installation or pet file installation.

Try this one http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=43338

PalapaGuy You can use OpenOffice from Series 2,3 in the repo, they are both a lot smaller than the latest release, we are talking maybe 150MB compressed and more, or if you want the latest version, you can usually find them posted in forum, All user remasters/releases of puppy that has OpenOffice include, usually come with other things, like a change of window manager, or a change of browser, added media players etc, when you get to the size of OpenOffice that usually means all gloves are off and lets give the whole puppy release a make over, lol. Well why not its fun, but if you want just puppy and OpenOffice, open your puppy package manager and select series 3 files and install it, or do the forum search thing for the latest version, you could always just run the remaster script once its installed and make a custom version with your printer, networking etc already setup already to go, anyways goodluck.
ttuuxxx

I think it best to use 4.2.1 or latest Pup (if reading this in the future) and an SFS or Open Office pet as suggested

. . . however there was an official version of Puppy
was it 108 Chubby?
That included Open Office in 99MB - which is remarkable because at the time Open Office was well over 100MB and of course that ISO included Puppy and his programs

Only Puppy can do this
Woof woof

i would also like to find open office.

i have tried a few different sfs versions, neither of which wanted to load.

i have been all over the forums and the web

i have not found a pet of 3.x, if anyone has a link we would appreciate it.

phodges wrote:i would also like to find open office.

i have tried a few different sfs versions, neither of which wanted to load.

i have been all over the forums and the web

i have not found a pet of 3.x, if anyone has a link we would appreciate it.

This is the base
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -2.2.0.pet

dictionary
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -2.2.0.pet

jre
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... _jre-6.pet

missing
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -2.2.0.pet

mozilla
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -2.2.0.pet

python-uno
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -2.2.0.pet

Help Docs
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -2.2.0.pet

It will run if you just add the base, but the other parts kick-in well if you need them.
ttuuxxx

Ps if you want to see the 3 series repo, its also located at this link.
ttuuxxx
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ackages-3/

OO Base has several missing dependencies when I try to install it under FatDog Puppy