On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:15:42PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> [ Your "top-posting" style of replying makes it harder for other people >> to join the discussion since they have to do quite some scrolling up >> and down to understand the context, especially if a certain topic has >> already received many messages. The recommended approach on this >> list is to put answers into the old text at the appropriate place >> while trimming the old text where possible. Ideally, every message >> should be a short "story" with all the relevant context in >> chronological order. ] > > Sorry, I am new to Debian. Hope this is right.
Perfect :) > Please see the following sources.list: > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 > 20070407-11:55]/ etch contrib main > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 > 20070407-11:55]/ etch contrib main > > # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: > #deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib > # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: > #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib Your apt knows only of one source for packages, and that is the CD1. You need to add additional sources. If you already have more than the first CD then you could add it with apt-cdrom (see 'man apt-cdrom' for more details). Otherwise, if your internet connection is working under Debian, you should uncomment (remove the # in front of) the line starting with 'deb' and also add something like: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib Replace 'us' with your country code if necessary or check the mirror list for a mirror close to you (http://www.debian.org/mirror/list) After that run 'apt-get update' and try installing openoffice again. Regards, Andrei P.S. Is there a reason for using apt-get? aptitude is the recommended frontend and also has a nice text interface if you start it without options. -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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