Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages
On Friday 17 October 2008 11:40:55 pm Jason C. Wells wrote:
> Is it advisable to install non-Debian provided packages?
>
> For example .deb files are out for openoffice3 but they haven't made
> their way to lenny yet. It seems like the Sun provided .deb files
> aren't quite so slick with handling dependencies. That or I am missing
> some important bit of understanding on how .debs work.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
I installed OpenOffice.org3 in Lenny with no problems. The Debian installer
sends files to /opt, and so avoids overwriting any existing packages.
The tarball is just a pack of .deb files for the individual applications in
the suite, which have a non-obvious dependency order. It would have been nice
to include an installation script, but lacking that, I simply went to the
untarred directory and ran
dpkg -i *deb
Works well for me, ymmv.
Lee
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