Harold, while my main computer has been running on Debian, I'm hardly an expert in maintaining it. So, I did go to the link you suggested, and tried to follow its procedure with, unfortunately, no success.
I send the commands just in case they can tell someone more knowledgeable than me (or you) what I'm missing. Thank you again for your help. Nino I first download the .deb package, and then do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org_2.0.4-7_i386.deb Password: dpkg: regarding openoffice.org_2.0.4-7_i386.deb containing openoffice.org: openoffice.org-l10n-en conflicts with openoffice.org (>> 1.1.3+1.1.4) openoffice.org (version 2.0.4-7) is to be installed. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org_2.0.4-7_i386.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing openoffice.org Errors were encountered while processing: openoffice.org_2.0.4-7_i386.deb So, I try to find out what you can do about this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man dpkg Reformatting dpkg(8), please wait... The man-pages suggest (to me at least) that, maybe, you should first remove the package, and then re-install it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg -r openoffice dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove openoffice which isn't installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg -r openoffice.org dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of openoffice.org: openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us depends on openoffice.org (>= 1.0.3-3). openoffice.org-debian-files depends on openoffice.org (>> 1.1.2+1.1.3). openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us depends on openoffice.org (>= 1.0.3-3). openoffice.org-bin depends on openoffice.org (>> 1.1.2+1.1.3). dpkg: error processing openoffice.org (--remove): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: openoffice.org Rather than trying to force removal (with dpkg -rf?) I have given up for the moment. OOo works well enough right now, and I'd hate to break it and then have to spend days to recover. On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 10:04 +0000, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:05 PM [GMT+1=CET], Nino Pereira > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Harold, > >> > >> thank you for your reaction. My version of OpenOffice is 2.0.2: > >> this is a little disconcerting, because before I wrote my email > >> I had downloaded the latest version of OpenOffice (2.0.4, I believe) > >> and I thought I had installed it (by unpacking a 120 Mb file with > >> tar -zxvf, going to what I thought was the right directory > >> OOo .... 9307 IIRC), finding the .deb file in the sub-directory > >> DesktopIntegration, and then executing dpkg -i ...deb.). > >> Apparently, I did something wrong on my stock Debian system > >> cat /proc/version gives > >> Linux version 2.4.27 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian > >> 1:3.3.5-13)) #2 Tue Jul 19 17:37:06 EDT 2005). > <snip> > You are right that 2.0.4 is the latest version but I'm afraid I don't > know enough about OOo on Linux to know how to install it. On Windows you > download an executable which you then run. Running it causes it to > unpack itself into a directory of your choice and then automatically run > the installer executable which was one of the files resulting from the > unpack operation. Once this has finished you can delete the original > downloaded file and all the unpacked files; they play no further part in > your use of OOo. Your "tar" command is clearly the unpack operation and > I guess your "dpkg ..." command is what runs the installer, but whether > you used the right args or whatever I can't say. The installation > instructions for Linux at > http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/instructions.html say you need to > do an "rpm" command but that may not apply to your flavour of Linux. > > I have changed the Subject line of this thread in the hope that some > Linux guru within this mail list will notice and be able to help. > > Harold Fuchs > London, England > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
