The Debian repositories now have OpenOffice.org 2.0.

It may take a day or two for mirrors to have the files, so anybody who
wants to use them right away should add an official Debian repository
to /etc/apt/sources.list. This source worked for me:

 deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main

The official Debian packages are preferable to using alien to convert
the rpm packages for two reasons: They are integrated into the operating
system better, and don't generate error messages when saving files, and
they are built with GCJ, making them a free version of OpenOffice.org
with all the Java-based features enabled. As I expected, the Java-based
features are slow, but they do work.

To be honest, I didn't expect to see the packages ready for a couple of
weeks.  Speaking only for myself, thanks to the Debian OOo team for
acting so quickly, and for supplying what the general OOo project would
not.
-- 
Bruce Byfield 604-421.7177
http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield


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