Hello!
Does anyone know how to install OpenOffice 2.X on RHEL 4?
Do I need to rent a keyboard/monitor access to my server (I forgot how it's called) or can I install it using only ftp and ssh access?

I just want to use OpenOffice as a backend for converting various document formats to other formats like MS Word to .odt and so on...

I appreciate any advice especially from those who have been able to install it of Linux server.

It looks like only version 1.1.5 is in up2date and I can't find a v2 RPM out there. You can either build one from the source RPM or install it manually from the source over at openoffice.org. Both will be a lengthy process. LAst I checked theres roughly 100M of source code to build.

It takes about 5-7 hours to compile OpenOffice 2.1 on my laptop and my desktop. You'll also need to install the X server packages and whatnot.....I don't know why you'd want to do that on a production server.

5-7 hours is very long. It does sound difficult to install but why do you have to build from source? Don't OpenOffice provide rpm based installation?

Maybe I don't understand something, but reading this info it does sound that you can just download, unpack and to rpm -Uvih *.rpm and it will install everything (including JRE 1.5 if you don't already have it)

I already installed java-1.5.0-ibm from up2date, so I probably don't need to use JRE provided by OO.