2007/8/22, krishnakant Mane researchbase@gmail.com:
hello, has some one faced this? I downloaded openoffice 2.2.1 as suggested on this list and then uncompressed it into a folder and then installed it with the following command. alien -i *.rpm.
There is debian package of OOo 2.2.1 available in the unstable.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/openoffice.org
but you will need to upgrade to unstable if you want to use it. But you are lucky as there is a version available in backports, which you can use in stable without upgrading to unstable.
Using backports.org is very simple:
1. Add this line
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
2. Run apt-get update
3. All backports are deactivated by default. If you want to install something from backports run:
apt-get -t etch-backports install "package"
Of course, you can use aptitude as well:
aptitude -t etch-backports install "package"
For more about backports see http://www.backports.org
Hope this helps.
Cheers Praveen