I’m trying to install Siag Office. It’s RPM package was last updated in 2009 and I it gives an error when attempting to install. Is there a way I can use it without downloading a 4 GB 2009 Fedora ISO for a virtual machine?
The VM would probably be your best option.
However, depending on what it is you are trying to install, you might be able to get away with something like mkdir /opt/old-software and dnf --installroot=/opt/old-software --releasever=20 install ./old-software.rpm. Then you could run it with something like chroot /opt/old-software /bin/<prog-name>.
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I have some bad news in that it’s going to be very unlikely to run on modern Fedora due to almost certain incompatible library dependencies and glibc, etc. The only way I can think of would be to maybe find a CentOS 5 container image and run it in distrobox, but it’s not going to be fun sourcing dependent RPMs for it.
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May I ask you for the use case of a 15+ year old, unmaintained package? Why don’t you jump on something more modern and supported?
Yeah looks like Libreoffice to me? At least a very reduced variant, so you could probably strip down Libreoffice like that.
Libreoffice is scary, extremely. I have no idea how their codebase looks like but it must be incredibly complex.
You could also try Kalligra, the Office suite from KDE. It is pretty different and more minimal