On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 06:03:40PM -0400, Larry Everson wrote: > I'm new to Linux and really trying hard to dump my windows > installations. I am trying to install OpenOffice 2.0.3, but not having > much luck. It seems like it is something I should be ablt do, and yet.... > > Here are the contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list file > deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib > non-free It is as easy as: # apt-get install openoffice.org2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting openoffice.org instead of openoffice.org2 [.....] Usually you just would say "apt-get -t sarge-backports install openoffice.org" - however, this does not work to some reason i don't understand (i'm just a user...) > Please let me know where I am going wrong. Many thanks in advance. Try it, hope that helps - worked for my just right now. Cheers, Alex. -- "I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped." -- Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator, on the Smithsonian Institute, 1901.
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