Hi, On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:40:55PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Is it advisable to install non-Debian provided packages?
Advisable -- No Will it work -- probably if you read their documentation for requirement. > For example .deb files are out for openoffice3 but they haven't made > their way to lenny yet. We are freeze for lenny release so sid is not updated as frequently. > It seems like the Sun provided .deb files aren't quite so slick with > handling dependencies. That or I am missing some important bit of > understanding on how .debs work. I did not test them. (Some venders link software statically to avoid dependency issues.) Download link was pointing to tar.gz file. Let's see what we have: http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openoffice.org.html Available versions Oldstable 1.1.3-9sarge8 Oldstable Security Updates 1.1.3-9sarge9 Stable 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch5 Stable Security Updates 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch5 Testing 1:2.4.1-11 Unstable 1:2.4.1-11 Experimental 1:3.0.0-3 It looks like someone is uploading it to Experimental now. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]