Re: Problems getting openoffice - help and thesaures packages
Which debian pool. The one that is available to me requires I remove 2.0.
Thanks,
Kate
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 03:32 pm, Thomas Walter wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 18:41, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I setup my /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/sources.list as shown in the
> > directions (see file listing below). When I apt-update I see the
> > reference to backports, so my sources.list is working....
> >
> > However, when I then tried apt-get upgrade, my openoffice did not upgrade
> > from 1.1 to 2.0. I had to manually use apt-get install
> > openoffice.org/backports to get the upgrade to work. My questions -
> >
> > 1. Will openoffice.org continue to be updated from backports, or did I
> > miss something in my setup?
> >
> > 2. Openoffice 2.0 is working, but I do not have the help files. I don't
> > see an obvious deb file for these on the backports site, so how do I get
> > them? I also tried downloading the rpms from openoffice.org, but I also
> > did not find an rpm that looked like the online help system. Where can I
> > get the online help system for 2.0 and how do I install it and keep it up
> > todate using apt?
>
> I used lots of backport on woody and packages like help files don't need
> a backport. You can get them from the normal debian pool. They
> generally end in 'all.deb'
>
> But it helps a lot and makes it much easier if access is provided via
> backport.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Thomas
>
> [snip]
>
>
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