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[James Tappin]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:37:11 +0700
Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:

C> Hello Justin,
C> 
C> Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 4:21:11 PM, you wrote:
C> 
C> JS> openoffice.org2 is in Universe.  I actually installed it today
C> JS> via synaptic, works fine.
C> 
C> JS> It calls itself version 1.9 {milestone}.
C> 
C> 1.9.79 actually. Which is a couple of months old I think.. (Though I
C> do remember that version on Windows and it ran fine.. I'd take it
C> over 1.1.3 anytime. Only that new Access-replacement database wasn't
C> really working yet, but the word processor, spread-sheet and drawing
C> program worked excellent.
C> 
C> So you can just install that version, that's probably the way to go.

I've tried that on both x86 and PPC machines and it segfaulted every
time I tried to open a native format file (as I recall I was able to
open OO 1.1.x files with it).

C> To install the latest beta release.. that's tricky. They only release
C> rpms, and I haven't been able to get those installed.
C> 
C> Would be nice if there were Ubuntu/Debian installer files available
C> for the latest releases?
C> 

There are debs available on
ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680 precisely
what gets built for each milestone seems to vary, you may need to check
back one to two versions from the latest to find what you want. I have
had some success with these versions (x86 only) on Hoary. 

James

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