I just had one more comment. Try installing OO3 from the deb. That went well for me.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: > But to answer the question of what happens if you just install a .deb > package, I can let you know from experience that it can cause subtle breaks > of your system, especially if it updates often... like Ubuntu Tweak-- an > excellent program btw-- for example. At least it wasn't in the depositories > when I first installed it. > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Robert, I actually had to install VBox from the .deb package because I >> couldn't get the repository version running on Ubuntu 8.04. Remember to >> make the download executable before trying to install. >> >> Having just found out that VMware doesn't support serial ports unless that >> serial port is exclusively used by a printer, I wonder if VBox does. In my >> case the serial port was to be used by a software key and a printer. >> I suspect that VBox doesn't either. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:51 AM, David Dooling < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:45:10AM -0500, Robert Citek wrote: >>> > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David Dooling < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> > > It should not get confused, it will likely just state that a newer >>> > > version than the one available from the repository is installed. >>> > >>> > I downloaded the .deb and tried installing. dpkg refused to install >>> > it as the existing version had to be removed first. >>> >>> That is expected (apt does this for you, in a forcible way since >>> removing may break dependencies that the subsequent install will fix). >>> >>> My experience in doing things like this (other than you don't have to >>> do it too often (most people make the repos)) is that if you are >>> installing a newer package than the one available in the repo, it >>> shows up as normal. If you are installing a package that is not >>> available in the repo, it shows up as an ``Obsolete and Locally >>> Created Package''. If a newer one shows up in the repo at some point, >>> apt does the right thing. >>> >>> -- >>> David Dooling >>> http://www.politigenomics.com/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
