Re: OpenOffice 2.0 install from .deb?

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

Opus wrote:
> I downloaded the Linux binaries for OpenOffice 2.0 from OpenOffice.org
> and found that they are in RPMs.  I managed to figure out that I
> needed to install alien, which I did, and have now converted the
> RPMs to DEBs, but I don't know what to do with the DEB files.  I'm
> running Sarge with a 2.6 kernel and I do updates using Aptitude
> about once a week.
> 
> So, how do I get the OpenOffice 2.0 .deb files installed on my
> system?
> 

dpkg -i <file>

man dpkg, and please have a read of the Debian Reference.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html