Re: Open office

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:07:03AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Rob van Kraanen <rob@justwe.nl> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm quite new with Debian 64-bits.
> > I just installed it on my laptop and it's great :)
> > I just had one question, openoffice is currently not available as a 
> > debian-package, does anyone know when it will be available?
> > Also is openoffice 2 available on AMD 64?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rob
> 
> Probably never. Maybe OOo 3 or 4.

Er um hmm, but why has gentoo had OOo 2 working on their amd64 port for a
while now?  I'm considering just getting a gentoo precompiled package and
untarring it on my system or actually trying to hack a deb out of it or
something.  If they can do it, there's no excuse for debian not having it.

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