On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:55:10 +0530, Vikas Rawal
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Which version of OOo is this? (dpkg -l *openoffice* |grep ii) will
>> tell you (sorry do not know synaptic well enough).
>>
>> If you have good bandwidth, you can add some newer repository to get
>> a newer version of OO.o. (Some Ubuntu guru would be able to confirm
>> this).
>>
> There are serious problems with openoffice packages in ubuntu
> repositories. For example, the form wizards in openoffice base do not
> work. It is a known bug in the Feisty Fawn repositories which the
> openoffice package maintainer in the ubuntu team has decided not to
> attend (rather insensitive, if you ask me) because the problem has
> been attended to in the next release (due in October).
> The suggested solution is to download openoffice rpms, use alien to
> create debs, and then install using dpkg.
> Not an elegant solution and a big comment on Ubuntu's package updating
> policies.
Would it not be simpler to just grab Debian Sid's packages
instead?
manoj
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