So Wary Puppy does include glibc2 by default --just not the version needed to run OpenOffice?
It may be that I am most confused by the file names and versioning... Hmm... it wouldn't be the first time I was confused... That said, I owe simargl an apology for having misunderstood what he was trying to tell me.
In the readme file for OpenOffice 3.4 here are the system requirements:
Notice that it refers to glibc2 yet in Wary Puppy I can only find reference to glibc in Puppy Package Manager and when I do a file search of my system. (By the way, PPM shows glibc -2.6.1.-1 in the repos as the latest version.) So my conclusion was that Wary Puppy does not have glibc2, hence the confusion. In short, "it's all in the languaging" so-to-speak.* Linux Kernel version 2.6.18 or higher
* glibc2 version 2.5 or higher
* gtk version 2.10.4 or higher
* Pentium compatible PC (Pentium III or Athlon recommended)
* 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended)
* Up to 1.55 GB available hard disk space
* X Server with 1024x768 resolution (higher resolution recommended), with at least 256 colors
* Window Manager
* Gnome 2.16 or higher, with the gail 1.8.6 and the at-spi 1.7 packages, required for support of assistive technology tools (AT tools)
While I have installed the glibc2 package from the download link provided by Tman and it appears to have not caused any problems, yet, I will heed your warnings that this upgrade could be risky and advise everyone to make sure they have backed up their important files before doing this update so as to try running Apache OpenOffice.
Monsie