Re: [LUG] OpenOffice 2 on Debian Sarge?

[Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:41:57AM +0100, Adrian Midgley (in the office) wrote:
> Simon Waters wrote:
> >Adrian Midgley wrote:
> >  
> >>I need to run OOo 2 rather than 1.1.3 on Sarge.  How do I persuade
> >>apt-get to allow this?   Even better, to help it?
> >>    
> >
> >You could get brave and try pinning it.....
> >
> >But this is probably the simplest.
> >
> >http://www.backports.org/package.php?search=office
> >
> >What is the machine in use for? If it is less critical than most of your
> >boxes, Etch has security support already (releases dates are for people
> >who aren't helping test the software).
> >  
> Home box, mail for the family, my desktop.  And test machine for the 
> main business server, hence I don't want to get too far ahead of Stable. 

FWIW, I am running Etch (debian testing) and have no problems with
stability. I upgraded to Etch from Sarge for this very reason: getting
Open Office 2.0.

Etch will also upgrade GAIM and prevent a problem with Yahoo Instant
Messanger
> 
> I found pinning confusing when I looked at it last time.  I suspect it 
> could be made simpelr to understand, but not by me since I don't 
> properly understand it.
> 
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