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

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