bill purvis wrote:
On Monday 19 November 2007, Dan Lewis wrote:
On Monday November 19 2007 08:37 am, bill purvis wrote:
Drew,
I finally decided to install the new version on the present system.
Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them.
Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits currently installed.
Then I entered:
apt-get install *.deb in the DEBS subdirectory.
Got the usual stuff about Reading package lists, dependency
tree, state information, then:
E: Couldn't find package openoffice.org-base_2.3.0-5_i386.deb
and it exits. There is a file of that name in the
directory and it looks OK. Any idea what might be
upsetting it?
Bill
Why did you use apt-get install *.deb in the DEBS subdirectory? What you
should have used was
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
This will install all the *.deb files in the directory.
I am using Ubuntu Gutzy after having upgraded from Feisty. So, I also
use the DEB package from OOo. In my limited experience with Debian
distributions, I have found that apt-get goes to the internet to
download .deb files and install them. Perhaps, I am wrong.
Dan, see my latest reponse to Drew. I'm very much a novice at Ubuntu/Debian
and my experience is still limited (but still willing to learn).
I was brought up on RedHat! (Not actually true - I was brought up on
paper tape based operating systems, about 40 years before Linux).
Bill
Paper tape is better than manually entering the os by hand on a set of
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