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First have a look at the general comments instructions to install bibus under linux. Here are some specific additional comments for mandriva and ArchLinux.

Bibus under Mandriva ...

I've made my best to get bibus working flawlessly in Mandriva.

On 2007.0, 2007.1 and 2008.0 (the latest release), this is just a matter of 'urpmi bibus', either in 32 bits and 64 bits editions ...

I'm OK to provide a more detailed information if needed, but i'd like to see the command on the top page, with a pointer to another page where i would have the rights to complete the description (with troubleshootings section).

Bibus under Arch Linux

3 Jan 2008

Modified a PKGBUILD from the Arch User Repository for Bibus 1.4 and built and installed without problems.

Had a lot of problems getting it to connect to OpenOffice until I found a post on the bibus forum about lowering the macro security level in addition to the already documented acceptance of running the macros contained in the uno connection template file:

From OpenOffice select Tools->Options->General->Security->Macros

Downgrade the security level to medium or low and then follow the connection instructions when running the bibus connection wizard (either on first run or from the help menu).

Restart OpenOffice and test the connection. Hopefully it has worked for you.