"Kurt Yoder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joachim Trinkwitz said: > > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > > > >> on Fri, Feb 22, 2002, Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >> wrote: > >> > This may sound stupid, but is there an up-to-date Open Office > >> > package to be had as a deb? I was thinking it might be nice to > >> > install it that way rather than installing the OpenOffice.org > >> > binary which doesn't use package management. > >> > >> AFAIK&C: no. > > > > Yes, it is: put the following line in your sources.list > > > > deb http://www.openoffice.de/debian/ potato main > > > > then say: > > > > # apt-get update ; apt-get install openoffice > > > > and more than 75 MB of Debian archives will flood your hard disk. > > > > Good luck and greetings, > > joachim > > I tried installing the openoffice .debs directly from > http://people.debian.org/~nidd/debian, but had no luck,
Try adding the sources.list line: deb http://people.debian.org/~nidd/debian/ unstable/ and then apt-get install openoffice. That should work, if you're running unstable anyway (and possibly woody, but probably not potato). -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
