Thanks Hendrik, As it is not urgent to upgrade to libre office right away and I do not want to lose what I like already in Squeeze and I was able to get by this time by a screen shot of an open office spread sheet I have decided to wait until either "Wheezy" becomes Debian Stable or libre-office gets added to the packages available in Squeeze before trying to install libre-office.
Please let me know when libre-office becomes available in a standard package of Debian stable. I do appreciate all the helpful hints on getting libre-office installed. I just do not trust my system administration skills at this time to risk losings what I like about squeeze. Regards, Michael On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 12:17 -0600, Hendrik Schaink wrote: > In Debian the libreoffice 3.3.2 packages are backported to "squeeze", > and libreoffice 3.3.3 packages are available in "wheezy". You could > simply add the backports repository to your sources.list (see also: > http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/ ) > > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main > > Then refresh the repo info and install libreoffice. > > If you're up for adding packages from "wheezy", you could add the > "wheezy main" repository to your sources.list. Just be sure to first > create file /etc/apt/apt.conf and copy the this line into it: > > APT::Default-Release: "squeeze"; > > This time be really careful when upgrading -- you do not want to upgrade > squeeze packages wholesale style to wheezy. > > Hope that helps, > > Hendrik > > > Dafydd Crosby wrote: > > I think you couldn't find it as the program is spelled "libre office" > > The website is http://www.libreoffice.org/ > > > > -Dafydd > > > > On 08/04/2011 09:56 AM, Michael John Walters wrote: > >> Hello All, > >> > >> I am running Debian Squeeze and decided to follow a suggestion by Dafydd > >> to try libra office. > >> > >> So I did an aptitude update, aptitude upgrade, and then did aptitude > >> search libraoffice with no hit, aptitude search libra-office with no > >> hit, and went to the synaptic manager for searching for packages similar > >> to libra office with no result. > >> > >> I really would like to try libraoffice, but am stumped as to search > >> terms. > >> > >> An Idea just occurred to me to try a google search on libra office. I > >> will let you know how that goes. > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
