Hello, Bret Busby schrieb: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Marius Popa wrote: >
> > I am wondering when Open Office 3.0 will be available for Debian 4.0 and > Ubuntu 8.10. There is a vanilla version availably for Debian 4.0 and Ubuntu 8.10. You can download them from www.openoffice.org and have to install it via dpkg -i. therefore you have first to uninstall the version of your distri completely. You only should do it if you know what you do if you install software beside your distri. > > Open Office 3.0 appears to be available only for Debian experimental > (hazardous), and not for Debian Stable (etch, or, Debian 4.0). Yes because a stable released distribution never changed a version only give security updates. > . > > Open Office 2.4 appears to be the latest version available through the > package management systems for both Debian 4.0 and Ubuntu 8.10. > > Whilst the Open Office web site appears to have a .tar.gz version > available for Debian Linux, my experience of trying to install files > from .tar.gz files, is that it ends up being quite messy, and the kind > of thing that needs paid support, to get a system running again. > > So, when will Open Office 3.0 be available for Debian 4.0 and Ubuntu > 8.10, theorugh their respective package repositories? Never for Debian 4.0. It will be available for Debian 5.0 (which become stable in the next time) via backports. I suggest that Ubuntu will do it with 9.04 Kind regards Mechtilde -- Dipl. Ing. Mechtilde Stehmann ## http://de.openoffice.org ## Ansprechpartnerin für die deutschsprachige QA ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris ## Meine Seite http://www.mechtilde.de ## PGP encryption welcome! Key-ID: 0x53B3892B --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
