Re: OpenOffice
Helge Tore Høyland wrote:
Helge Tore Høyland wrote:
Jon Dowland wrote:
Scarletdown wrote:
Helge Tore Høyland wrote:
Is OpenOffice included in Woody, and if not, how do i get it in
the debian way?
apt-get install openoffice.org perhaps?
Dear, dear me...
Find out if it's in woody by looking through your local packages
lists, via apt-cache, dpkg -l, aptitude, whatever. Or, use
http://packages.debian.org/
If it isn't, you need to upgrade to sarge, or run a mixed
distribution (although, I imagine trying to run OOo and the required
support libs from sarge on woody would be a disaster due to the age
difference being as big as it could be)
Should I update to sarge then?
Is that risky?
Helge Tore
Not really. Sarge is tagged "Testing," but all that means is it's still
under light development, and all known problems are getting ironed out.
In my experience Sarge is more stable and complete than other distros
main releases.
The joy of the Debian packaging is awesome upgrading. Though things can
potentially go wrong, especially if you only upgrade part of y our
system, generally upgrading from Woody to Sarge, or even to Sid, is a
smooth process that leaves you in a perfect working environment.
<rant>
I used Woody for a grand total of three days, couldn't stand KDE 2, and
switched to Sarge. I never found a bug in the months that I used it.
Now I use Sid, and other than installing unstable nVidia drivers that
totally messed up my system, I've only found one or two bugs, that have
since disappeared.
My point is that in the Debian world "Unstable" means "not garunteed to
work, but it works well anyway for non-production use" testing means
"We're getting there... but we wouldn't garuntee that your server won't
get cracked if you run it." Stable means "Titanium-solid, super-secure,
great for servers. But the software is so old you won't be able to
stand it for home use."
</rant>
To upgrade to Sarge just change every instance of "stable" in
/etc/apt/sources.list to "testing", and run "apt-get update && apt-get
dist-upgrade".
I regularly install onto my old Mac's from the Woody dist (Sarge kernal
won't boot on my old Macs for some reason... have to use 2.2), and
upgrade to Sarge or Side with no hiccups.
Cheerio,
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