Re: (Solved, I think) apt, dpkg and dependancies

Marc Shapiro wrote: I have been trying to install OOo2 on Sarge from backports.org but OOo-base insists that it wants j2re1.4 | java-gcj-compat | java2-runtime, none of which are in Sarge, or backports. I have the j2re1.4 and jdk1.5 from Sun installed, so I installed the package with 'dpkg -

apt, dpkg and dependancies

I have been trying to install OOo2 on Sarge from backports.org but OOo-base insists that it wants j2re1.4 | java-gcj-compat | java2-runtime, none of which are in Sarge, or backports. I have the j2re1.4 and jdk1.5 from Sun installed, so I installed the package with 'dpkg --ignore-depends=j2re1.