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Re: OpenOffice.org Depends on libfreetype6 << 2.1.0



On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 17:37, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Yuhanes Tjandra wrote:
> > I have a problem, which was probably the most FAQ in the users list in
> > couple of months ago.
> 
> And it is.
> 
> And if you have has read the archives of this mailinglist, you would
> have seen much much answers on thaz topic....
> 
> > contrib. The problem is unmatched version used in both packages.
> > Gnome2.2 requires libfreetype6 2.1.3-10woody1, while openoffice.org
> > libfreetype6 < 2.1.0
> [...]
> > Can we have the same version of libfreetype6? I know it is the risk to
> > run a mixed system.
> 
> No and exactly. The packages are compiled on woody which has 2.0.9.
> Unfortunately libfreetype6 2.0.9 is incompatible with libfreetype6 >= 2.1.0,
> so we need to enfore this dependency.
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2003/debian-openoffice-200303/msg00041.html
> lists two possibilities what you can do...
> 
> As it seems you would keep your GNOME 2.2 backport, you only have option

Actually there is another openoffice available for woody based on this
semi-official release, that is compatible with gnome 2.2.  Get it from
here:

deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free

See notes at:
http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages

Jamie

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