OpenOffice 2.0

craigevil · 11-06-2005, 10:24 AM

Anyone tried to install OO 2.0?

I marked it but it wanted to uninstall tons of apps, so I didnt go through with it.

Any suggestions or should I just wait?

acid_kewpie · 11-06-2005, 10:30 AM

suggestions for what? you've not said anythign useful about your situation... i.e. what apps does it want to remove?

OO2 works great... why shouldn't you want to use it?

craigevil · 11-06-2005, 10:35 AM

It wants to uninstall for starters aptitude, and a few other KDE apps.

The "official" OO version is all rpm, not sure if I can convert all the files to deb and install or not.

But running Synaptic to install the Debian version doesn't seem like a good idea with all of the apps it wants to unstall. Maybe I will just wait until it gets updated a little.

acid_kewpie · 11-06-2005, 10:38 AM

i would have to suggest that that's not what it's meant to do, but i generally hate debian, so couldn't say much more.

the official release isn't just rpm only. it sill install generic binaries using it's own installer.

SlackerLX · 11-06-2005, 10:53 AM

However, if you still want to use debian, add unstable to sources and update OO from 1.2 to 2.0

IBall · 11-06-2005, 07:51 PM

You can convert the rpms from Openoffice to deb, using alien. Then you can install them with dpkg. I did this, without any problems.

This way, it doesn't overwrite your existing openoffice, because it installs to /opt.

--Ian

farslayer · 11-07-2005, 03:00 PM

apt-get install openoffice.org

It uninstalled openoffice.org1.x and installed openoffice.org2.0
added a few files for dependancies, & everything works no troubles

I am running Debian sid same as the topic originator..

SlackerLX · 11-07-2005, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by farslayer
apt-get install openoffice.org

It uninstalled openoffice.org1.x and installed openoffice.org2.0
added a few files for dependancies, & everything works no troubles

Once again, in order to do that you have to add unstable sources to your apt or Synaptic repositories

Ruben2 · 11-07-2005, 03:43 PM

I'm running testing so I'm waiting till it's testing

SlackerLX · 11-07-2005, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ruben2
I'm running testing so I'm waiting till it's testing

You either try to be less enigmatic or have more sense here...

farslayer · 11-07-2005, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SlackerLX
Once again, in order to do that you have to add unstable sources to your apt or Synaptic repositories

I am running Unstable and so is the topic started as I stated in my post... no need to change our sources.. the rest of you however

vharishankar · 11-08-2005, 03:31 AM

I'm on testing (not for drugs

) and I don't intend getting unstable. (no pun intended).

Ruben2 · 11-08-2005, 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by SlackerLX
You either try to be less enigmatic or have more sense here...

I meant that if someone needs more stability, he/she can better switch to testing than using unstable. That's what I'm doing, because I'm afraid that when I run unstable I'll get into dependency troubles etc. That's why I'm using testing, it's more stable while it keeps (quite) up to date.

Thanks for the tip though

SlackerLX · 11-08-2005, 07:56 AM

You don't have to upgrade to debian-unstable. All you need is to update OO packages from 1.2 to 2.0.
OO is stand alone and doesn't affect the performance neither stability. SuSE has been using OO 2.0 for a long time now and it runs exceptionally well