Re: how to try OOo's 3.0 beta deb on Debian?

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Jonathan Kaye wrote:

> Hi H.S.,
> It won't interfere with your current OOo installation. The debs install the
> beta version in a separate folder called ooo-dev3. It's installed
> under /opt on my system. I have been running both the beta and 2.4.1 and
> have not experienced any problems. If you create a new document with 3.0
> and then later open it with 2.4.1 it will notice this and offer to update
> 2.4.1. You can politely refuse the offer and carry on with your 2 systems.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan

Thanks for the clarificaton. I am now going to give the beta a shot on
my Debian Lenny.

BTW, how do you deal with newer betas? Do you purge the previous one first?

->HS