Re: Open Office under testing
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 21:14, Deryk Barker wrote:
> Thus spake Dale Hair (dale@meridian-electric.com):
>
> > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 14:35, Deryk Barker wrote:
> > > As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found
> > > at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries
> > > (e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing...
> > >
> > > Ah well, it's back to the 1.0 tarball.
> > > --
> >
> > You might try adding this to your sources.list. I believe it is
> > 1.0.1-5+woody6, at least it shows up in aptitude as an available
> > version. I'm currently running an unstable version but still have this
> > line in my sources.list.
> >
> > # OpenOffice
> > deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/ testing main contrib
>
> Thanks, but this doesn't work either! Everything appeasr to install
> OK, when I try to run the setup fails: firstly it complained that it
> couldn't find setup - and indeed it wasn't there, but setup.bin
> was. So I hardlinked setup to setup.bin, ditto the other.bin files in
> the directory.
>
> Now when I try it it says that it can't find libcomphelp2.so - which
> also exists.
>
> I'm starting to tear my hair out over this: I *must* have OO running
> on my new machine before I can hand the old one over to my wife as
> promised...
I installed this version on a woody machine a couple months ago with no
problem, however there is a big difference between woody, testing and
unstable.
At this time oo is only available in unstable. If you really need oo
you will probably need to install openoffice.org-bin from unstable along
with all dependencies. That's what I'm running now.
--
Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com>
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