On Saturday September 22 2007 11:10 am, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> Dan Lewis wrote:
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> > If you have the version that came with Ubuntu 6.10, you need to
> > uninstall it first. Here is what Hagar de *'Est wrote in an article,
> > "[Ubumtu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co." You will find it on the
> > www.8daysaweek.co.uk web site. Once you have removed any previous
> > version of OOo, skip to step #5. Use a terminal to do this, and make
> > sure you are in the directory which contains all of the debs.
>
> Always a good idea: sorry I forgot to mention this.
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> As OOo is released with RPMs (Ubuntu uses deb format, same as
> Debian), you
>
> > cannot install OOo directly but you need to convert the files to .deb
> > format.
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> Where have you been, Dan? OOo V2.3 is released in a deb package as well
> as rpm - for which many grateful thanks to the packagers - and installs
> exactly as I described.
>
> Peter HB
I have been using Madriva Linux on all of my computers until I recently
installed Ubuntu 7.04 one one of them. Hagar was nice enough to give me a
link to the web page I mentioned. It is important to remove the Ubuntu
version of OOo before installing the new version. That is why I quoted the
article. Note that I also said he could skip down to step #5 after making
sure he had removed the Ubuntu version. Telling someone just to use
dpkg -i *.deb without first making them understand the importance of
removing the Ubuntu version first with synaptic might cause problems for
anyone who did not know it was necessary.
Dan
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