On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:12:53PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > potato users left out again? Unfortunately, yes. OOo needs several tools which are too old in Potato, such as bison, to build. Upstream do builds on machines with custom sets of packages installed, which is why they do not have the same problem. Their precompiled version is installable on Potato, so you may like to try that out. If you're wondering why I haven't tried creating Potato packages, it is because I would need 10 Gig of disk space and 10 hours of build time. $ df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 17G 14G 3.1G 81% / Gerfried Fuchs has been attempting to build OOo packages on Woody, but there, one of the build dependencies for our package was too buggy and we had to backport a fix. He hasn't given up yet :) For the latest information about our packages, and a list of available mirrors, see: http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice Chris Halls OpenOffice.org packaging team
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