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Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages



Hello.

Openoffice.org have .deb packages for debian, I have in etch and runs
well.

Josep

El sáb, 18-10-2008 a las 16:11 +0900, Osamu Aoki escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:40:55PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> > Is it advisable to install non-Debian provided packages? 
> 
> Advisable    -- No
> Will it work -- probably if you read their documentation for
>                 requirement.
> 
> > For example .deb files are out for openoffice3 but they haven't made  
> > their way to lenny yet.  
> 
> We are freeze for lenny release so sid is not updated as frequently.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I did not test them.  (Some venders link software statically to avoid
> dependency issues.)  Download link was pointing to tar.gz file.
> 
> Let's see what we have:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openoffice.org.html
> Available versions
> Oldstable       1.1.3-9sarge8
> Oldstable Security Updates      1.1.3-9sarge9
> Stable  2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch5
> Stable Security Updates         2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch5
> Testing         1:2.4.1-11
> Unstable        1:2.4.1-11
> Experimental    1:3.0.0-3
> 
> It looks like someone is uploading it to Experimental now.
> 
> 
> Osamu
> 
> 


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