-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 02:00:47PM +0000, Paulo Figueira wrote: >I have tried with the deb file from openoffice.org.
I guess you manually downloaded the *.deb files from somewhere at the OpenOffice.org official website, and installed the downloaded packages manually with dpkg. I would trust OpenOffice developers in writing their software very well, but not in packaging it very well for Debian. >I have tried upgrading the system replacing etch by lenny on the >sources.list file. This is better: Relying on APT for dependency resolving instead of manually injecting .deb packages with dpkg. But still - what you tried was in fact a full upgrade of your stable system (codename "Etch") to become the testing system (codename "Lenny"). I imagine you wanted as stable as possible a system - with only OpenOffice being unstable. >So, what's the right procedure for using backports? Adding some Etch-related backports.org line to APT, in _addition_ to your existing official Etch line(s) already there. I deliberately do not provide you a step-by-step procedure: I believe that if you are unable to put the pieces together from here, then really you need to learn more about APT and the interaction between official Debian, Debian-base Skolelinux (a.k.a. Debian-Edu) and backports.org. In short: backports.org is a big pool of (relatively small) "forks" of Debian. Debian-Edu is *also* a (relatively small) fork of Debian. Forking the officially tested package pool called "Debian stable" raise to risk of problems - and mixing *multiple* forks raise that risk even more. As mentioned earlier, only some trouble comes at install time - some of it comes when you later want to update packages to newer versions (either due to security issues, because you want even newer OpenOffice.org features, or part of a full system upgrade when Lenny is declared stable and Etch then renamed oldstable. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH48krn7DbMsAkQLgRAq/AAJ4kDZ7D/hTH2oBfTvz3jb1pR4RYnACeMCMU fMr1gNpGmHPzS37oq91/PMw= =X3UX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
