On Saturday 02 July 2005 11:01 am, John Jordan wrote: > On 2 Jul 2005, at 13:57, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 10:45 -0700, John Jordan wrote: > > > On 2 Jul 2005, at 11:24, John W. Kennedy wrote: > > > > 1.9.113 is out now. > > > > > > But still no way to install it on Debian. (The instructions do > > > not work.) > > > > What instructions? Those in the SETUP GUIDE or some instructions > > you got elsewhere? > > What Setup Guide? > > There are instructions at OpenOffice.org: > > http://installation.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=60 >9 > > The instructions at the above link do not work because alien pukes up > all the RPMs and no .debs are created. I suspect it may be due to the > fact that the RPMs were created for i386 and my Ubuntu is amd64. Or > it could just be that the postinfo in the RPMs is incorrect, as > Clemmitt Sigler said. Anyway, alien spewed out two pages of error > messages, at which point I gave up.
Those instructions work for i386, afaik, they won't work using the 32bit tar.gz on an amd64 box. > > Synaptic lists three 1.9 files for installation. They all fail and > give error messages about missing files. Synaptic is using sources that are not related to OO.org so asking on the appropriate distro list may help, though I follow the Ubuntu & Debian AMD64 lists for info on OO and have yet to see anything concrete on when a 64bit version will be available. > Someone else gave me new repositories to add to Synaptic, but no > matter what I entered in the Add > Custom window, Synaptic was unable > to locate the repositories. I also tried apt-get install using the > new repositories, but couldn't get anything but error messages. I > browsed to the repositories and they seem to be there, but for some > reason I cannot access them. > > Still want to install the latest beta. Just need an apt-get location > that works. The package at the link Rod posted does work (64bit) ...sort of. It installs and I can use it on new documents but it fails on opening my existing OOwriter docs. ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/ -- Greg Madden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
