On Saturday 02 July 2005 08:12 pm, John Jordan wrote: > On 2 Jul 2005, at 13:12, Greg Madden wrote: > > 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. > > I posted over a week ago on Ubuntu forums. No responses.
> > > 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/ > > OK, I browsed there, but there are no .deb packages there that > look like 64- bit. But if I go deeper I find some that might be what > you are referring to. ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/ooo64bit02/Build-4 > > I also tried adding that line to Synaptic repositories, but it didn't > work. Synaptic is very strange about that. If the location doesn't > exist or > there is > some other error (e.g., no packages at that site), you'd think it > would say so. But all that happens is a great deal of nothing. It > reloads the packages and you think it has found the new packages, but > when you go into Settings you discover that the source you just typed > into the Add > Custom box a few minutes earlier is not listed. > Evidently it just decides to ignore it without so much as a whisper. > > > > Maybe I should just download it and do it manually. Exactly which > file is it? Yes. -- Greg Madden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
