Openoffice rpm

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Sep 27 20:06:21 UTC 2004


Seems kindof usefull...

man, 27.09.2004 kl. 21.31 skrev Richard Houston:
> Spadmin is the printer and font admin utility for openoffice. It is
> included in the package from openoffice.org. It allows you to change the
> default printer system from lpr to what ever you want. In our case we are
> going to use kprinter to allow users access to the extended features of
> our lexmark printer.
> 
> The issue here on FC2 is that openoffice, I assume, has been setup to use
> libgnomeprint and or talks to the cups printer directly. I an not sure. I
> have symlinked the lpr in /usr/bin to kprinter but openoffice still uses
> it's internal printer setup. This setup does not allow openoffice to
> access the advanced features of the printers such as duplex printing and
> alternative paper trays from a standard user.
> 
> With spadmin you can also setup fax printers for open office and pdf
> printers which I realize is already available.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> +------------------------------------------+
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> 
> Kyrre Ness Sjobak said:
> > man, 27.09.2004 kl. 20.51 skrev Richard Houston:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have a need to have the OpenOffice spadmin util available for my users
> >> on a FC2 terminal server. Is there a way to add it back into the
> >> openoffice rpm?
> >>
> >> I have tried commenting out the part of the spec file that removed the
> >> directories related to the spadmin util and that works but when you try
> >> to
> >> run the util it complains about a missing lib.
> >>
> >> So in short I would like to use the rpm exactly as found on an FC2
> >> system
> >> but have access to the spadmin and supporting libs.
> >>
> >> Any insight or comment would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> If nothing else does anyone know who I could email about this?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> +------------------------------------------+
> >> | Richard Houston                  .^.     |
> >> | R.L.H.  Consulting               /V\     |
> >> | E-Mail  <rhouston at rlhc.net>    /(   )\   |
> >> | WWW     <www.rlhc.net>          ^^-^^    |
> >> +------------------------------------------+
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I am also running a terminal server off fedora - but what is spadmin?
> >
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