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Installing the Novell Client for OpenSUSE 10.2 onto OpenSUSE 10.3

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The Novell Client for OpenSUSE 10.2 will install on OpenSUSE 10.3 with a few hacks.

  1. Download the client and run the install. You will get a number of failures starting with the novell-xtier-base installation. This fails because the install was expecting a certain version of binutils and OpenSUSE 10.3 has a newer version.
  2. From a root console, type the following: 
    cd /usr/lib
ln -s libbfd-2.17.50.20070726-14.so libbfd-2.17.50.0.5.so
  3. Force installation of the novell-xtier-base RPM to ignore the dependency failure: 
    cd /media/cdrom (or wherever you have the installation image mounted)
cd suse/i586
rpm -U --nodeps novell-xtier-base-3.1.5-6.23.i586.rpm
  4. Run the install again using the ncl_install script from the installation media. The install should complete without further error.
  5. You will need to add the /opt/novell/ncl/bin directory to your path in order for the login utility to find all of the programs needed to process login scripts. Edit the /etc/bash.bashrc file and add the following line to the end:
    6. PATH=$PATH:/opt/novell/ncl/bin
  6. Log out and back in for the changes to the bash.bashrc to take effect.

The client should now be working correctly and your login script should process as normal.

OpenOffice for Windows 2.3 Novell Edition, security patch

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Revision: 2

Distribution Type: Public

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=Z-4CSDhJC0M~

abstract

This mainly addresses a security vulnerability in OpenOffice which allows the possibility to run arbitrary code using hsqldb.

details

Overview:
Update to Open Office 2.3 to address a security vulnerability along with a few bug fixes.

System Requirements:
Open Office 2.3

Installation:
1) Download the msp file on a Windows machine with the Novell OOo 2.3 installed.
2) Double click the msp file and proceed through the install.
3) Restart the system.

Uninstalling:
1) Start | Settings | Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs
2) Select the Show Updates option
3) Select OOo-2.3.0-7-3.msp
4) Remove the patch

Known Problems and Limitations:

Technical Support Information:
Bugzilla # 343765

security fixes

Fixed possibility to run arbitrary code using hsqldb, CVE-2007-4575

file contents

Files Included Size Date
OOo-2.3.0-7-3.msp 6.4 MB (6752768) 2007-12-04 10:10:05
readme_5007300.html N/A 2007-12-07 22:49:25

OpenOffice.org 2.3, Novell Edition

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Product Description

OpenOffice.org is a suite of office-productivity applications. It provides a word processor, presentation and spreadsheet applications, an HTML editor, and a drawing tool. It offers extensive file-format compatibility with Microsoft* Office, allowing users to better share files between platforms.

Key Features of OpenOffice.org 2.3

The Novell® Edition of OpenOffice.org contains enhancements and bug fixes that are not available in the standard edition. These include:

General Features

  • Enhanced Support for Microsoft Office File Formats: OpenOffice.org supports import and export of Microsoft Office file formats, even taking advantage of compatible fonts to match document length. Transparent document sharing makes OpenOffice.org the best choice if you are deploying it in a mixed Linux/Windows environment.
  • ODMA Integration: The Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org for Windows includes improved integration with ODMA (Open Document Management Architecture) services, for example for GroupWise. If you have the GroupWise client installed on the machine, OpenOffice.org will offer to open documents from GroupWise, or save documents in GroupWise. If you want to open or save documents using the normal Windows file dialog instead, click Use Application Dialog when offered to select a document from GroupWise or to save a document into GroupWise. To avoid the GroupWise dialogs altogether, toggle the corresponding button in the Tools > Options > General dialog.
  • Enhanced Fonts: For the Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org, Novell licensed fonts from Agfa Monotype which are metrically identical and visually compatible with some of the key Microsoft fonts. This allows OpenOffice.org to match fonts when opening documents originally composed in Microsoft Office, and very closely match pagination and page formatting. The fonts have different names, but are transparently mapped on export and import to their equivalents.

Calc

  • Excel Compatibility: Improved Excel compatibility for certain built-in functions (e.g. CELL, INFO, INDIRECT), hyperlinks and filters, improved ergonomics, ‘merge and center’ fix. Adds support for ‘R1C1’ style addresses. Performance enhancement on certain text functions such as SEARCH. Natural sorting option in cell range sorting.
  • Excel VBA Macro Interoperability: The Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org eases the migration of many macros from Microsoft Excel. Although not all macros can be successfully migrated, this interoperability offers more than the standard edition, which does not support migration of macros.
  • Data Pilots: Data Pilots are interoperable with MS Pivot Tablesâ„¢. The Novell edition substantially improves the Data Pilot feature, making it possible to edit pilots after creation.
  • Solver: The Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org has a linear optimization solver to optimize a cell value based on arbitrary constraints, built into Calc.

Writer

The Writer navigator allows a tree view of the document structure, giving a slicker navigation experience. We also have improved change-tracking interoperability, better HTML export, and improved printing of fonts. For CJK locales we auto-generate bold and italic fonts where they are (commonly) missing.

Impress

The Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org improves the visual appearance of some graphical elements in Impress presentation slide shows.

GroupWise 7 SP3, GroupWise 8 Beta

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The rumour has been corrected :

“We ‘were’ targeting October 2007 for 7.0.3, but we have run into a few snags. We are working those out and we are trying to make sure that the 7.0.3 meets our Quality Metrics before we ship. This is going to take some more time.

If all goes well, we will be posting Authorized BETA for Bonsai tomorrow. The entire engineering team will then focus its efforts on 7.0.3. We have some outstanding bugs we still need to fix and Testing needs to run through its test plans. We are shooting for a Public BETA of 7.0.3 in December.

We will then evaluate, from the feedback we get during the Public BETA and the progress of Testing/Validation, on the final ship date for 7.0.3. This will be our focus until 7.0.3 ships.

After we ship 7.0.3, we will turn our attention again to Bonsai and refresh the BETA and push to Bonsai Public Beta. That is our current plan – hope that helps everyone plan and set expectations.”

Posted by Dean Lythgoe in the NGW List.