On Wed, Feb 05, 2003, Mary wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> > I don't want to upgrade my (debian/woody) system to unstable to
> > install openoffice.org, and keeping my system at stable but
> > installing the unstable packages requires me to remove half of the
> > packages I have installed before. So I have decided to install using
> > the tarball from openoffice.org.
> 
> This could be too late, but this week's Debian weekly news announced
> that OpenOffice has been backported to woody, although the packages
> are in a private repository and not extensively tested.

Incidently, there's a nice list of unofficial apt repositories at
http://www.apt-get.org which contains a lot of backports of various
packages to Woody. Of course, being unofficial, it's hard to tell how
good they are...

-Mary
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