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Re: Java in Debian 5



On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Adrian Levi wrote:


2009/2/21 Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
If you install the desktop task you also get OpenOffice.org that depends
on a Java JRE.

So, to use Open Office, Java is needed?

I understood that Open Office could be run without Java, unless a person
wanted to use the Open Office database.

If you install a desktop task then the openoffice.org meta package is
installed and that depends on all of the openoffice packages which
also depends on a java JDK.

You can install the openoffice items separately thereby not requiring
Java to be installed.

Adrian



Which is yet another reason that many of us want them to reinstate Star Office 5.2.

It was far superior to Open Office, and, did not require Java, unless the database was to be used, from memory, although I had had a database running in at least one version of Star Office 5.x, without Java.

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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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 you'll know what the answer means."
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  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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  published by Pan Books, 1992

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