Re: How to install an older version (3.0) of OpenOffice?

[Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:33:36AM +0100, Johan Grönqvist wrote:
> Personally, if I would need to get it to work quickly, and without  
> risking the debian installation (by mixing library versions) I would  
> probably install lenny in a virtualbox environment, and then add the  
> relevant line to snapshot.debian.org in my apt sources. Then I would try  
> to install impress 3.0 from there, but schroot or perhaps lxc would  
> probably work just as well.

Why lenny, and not squeeze (current stable)?

Otherwise, I think this is generally sound advice.  Although as I get
increasingly less tolerant of problems on my work machine,  I'm more inclined
to stick my sid environment inside a VM, and hav the "outside" be more stable.


thanks,


-- 
Jon Dowland