Re: YaOOQ (Yet another Open Office Question)
"Kurt Yoder" <kylist@shcorp.com> writes:
> Joachim Trinkwitz said:
> > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> >
> >> on Fri, Feb 22, 2002, Timothy R. Butler (tbutler@uninetsolutions.com)
> >> wrote:
> >> > This may sound stupid, but is there an up-to-date Open Office
> >> > package to be had as a deb? I was thinking it might be nice to
> >> > install it that way rather than installing the OpenOffice.org
> >> > binary which doesn't use package management.
> >>
> >> AFAIK&C: no.
> >
> > Yes, it is: put the following line in your sources.list
> >
> > deb http://www.openoffice.de/debian/ potato main
> >
> > then say:
> >
> > # apt-get update ; apt-get install openoffice
> >
> > and more than 75 MB of Debian archives will flood your hard disk.
> >
> > Good luck and greetings,
> > joachim
>
> I tried installing the openoffice .debs directly from
> http://people.debian.org/~nidd/debian, but had no luck,
Try adding the sources.list line:
deb http://people.debian.org/~nidd/debian/ unstable/
and then apt-get install openoffice. That should work, if you're
running unstable anyway (and possibly woody, but probably not potato).
--
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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