Requesting Help with OpenOffice Installation
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
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
I ran the apt-get update command and it returned the following:
everson:~# apt-get update
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org sarge/main Release
Get:1 http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/main Packages [523kB]
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Sources
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Release
Get:2 http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/main Release [137B]
Hit http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/contrib Packages
Get:3 http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/contrib Release [140B]
Hit http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/non-free Packages
Get:4 http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/non-free Release [141B]
Fetched 523kB in 2s (207kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
I tried to do an install and used the following commands. In every case
I was told that the openoffice package that I requested was not found.
everson:~# apt-get install openoffice.org_2.0.3-1bpo1_i386.deb
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package openoffice.org_2.0.3-1bpo1_i386.deb
I also tried:
everson:~# apt-get install openoffice.org_2.0.3-1bpo1_i386
everson:~# apt-get install openoffice.org_2.0.3-1bpo1_i386.deb
everson:~# apt-get install openoffice.org_2.0.3-6~bpo1_i386
everson:~# apt-get install openoffice.org_2.0.3-6~bpo1_i386.deb
I tried many other package names that I discovered by reading through
the e-mail achives. No luck.
Please let me know where I am going wrong. Many thanks in advance.
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