hellop everyone,
I am trying to isntall openoffice on my debian distr (woody)
i added the following line to my sources list:

#openoffice
deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/debian-openoffice/ woody main contrib


then did:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install openoffice.org

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-bin (> 1.0.2-pre1.0.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages

I have tried several other mirrors and yet the same problem
what am I doing wrong??!!!
if someone knows help would be much appreciated

thanks
Marta

If something is broken at this level and your apt-sources are good then it needs to be dealt with by the package maintainer. There email is visible in dselect.

Is there any reason you can't upgrade to sarge? OO 1.1 is meeting my needs nicely and is definately a significant improvement over 1.0.

I'll try what you say about openoffice, although im sure someone must have successfully installed openoffice on debian stable, its been around for a while...

mmm... not too sure about sarge. I am a real newbie and thought id stick to the stable version for a bit, although most of the programs I want are not available in stable, so i might give it a go.

cheers
Marta

pm me with your address and I will send you the oo_1.1 version on cd. You can just mail me a blank cd in return. Installs very easily on Debian 3

i tried to pm you but failed... dunno why.
is there really no other way than to install by cd? surely someone must have managed!
cheers
Marta

Can you get Linux Format Magazine in Holland (British Publication)? This month's edition has OpenOffice which is where I got it. pm is not working because I am not a contributing member.

ok, my mistake... in fact when trying to install openoffice.org-bin
i realised that i had a backport which was fetching a newer version of libfreetype6 than the one the open office backport i was trying to fetch, needs.
I had version 2.1 of libfreetype6 (stable has 2.0.9 only) and the open office backport that i was trying to get is forced to run <<2.1.0.
thus the problem in using that particular mirror
apparently the next backport will use the freetype shipped with oo and this problem wont happen

ok now i now what the problem is... but i still dont know how to intsall open office!!!!

Marta