On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:23:56PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: [snip] > I absolutely require the following: > > Gnome desktop (yes, I've tried all the others) This works fine in Lenny. > OpenOffice.org 3.1.1.4 (fixes bugs in the Math module) It appears that Backports might help: http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-install-openoffice-31-in-debian.html > Scribus 1.3.5.1 (I need the features) Even unstable has only 1.3.3.13; you might have to build this on your own. > Adobe Reader 9.1 Debian Multimedia seems to have only Acrobat 8.1, but I'd think you can use Adobe's own distributed tarball/package? > Okular (any reasonably recent version) Lenny has 0.7-2; in addition, if you want to grab the KDE 4.1 version for Lenny, see http://kde4.debian.net/ (I don't seem to be able to open it at the moment). > praat (for speech analysis) Lenny has 5.0.29+. > support for my bluetooth mouse and headphones This, I believe, might be a kernel issue. I'd recommend using an up-to-date kernel with Lenny; that shouldn't be much of a problem with Lenny backports. > I come from Ubuntu, where all of the above can be installed without issue. > However, Scribus does not play well with Ubuntu because the Ubuntu team has > taken liberties with the Qt 4.5 libraries. The Scribus people recommend Debian, > Fedora or OpenSuse. > > So here I am, considering Debian once again. > > Can some kind user of Lenny tell me if the above apps can be installed so they > actually work? Is anyone using a bluetooth mouse or headphones with Lenny? My current machine does not have one, but I have installed Lenny for a friend, for whom Bluetooth seems to play well; YMMV. > I apologize for sounding negative. The past ten days have been majorly > frustrating. I can sympathize with that; getting complex software, especially non-free ones, to work the way you want is not a simple task. I hope the information above is useful to you. Should you face any further issues with Lenny, do come to this list; I am sure people will help solve your problems to the best of their ability. Kumar -- I never thought that I'd see the day where Netscape is free software and X11 is proprietary. We live in interesting times. -- Matt Kimball <mkimball@xmission.com>
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