OpenOffice 2.2 Released - Ubuntu?

[Roberto J. Dohnert]

The Ubuntu team does not backport major releases of anything.  I also
had to use Alien to change the rpm's to .debs and install

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 13:54 -0400, Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 21:04 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> > OOo 2.2 has just been released today:
> > http://www.openoffice.org/
> > http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.0/index.html
> 
> > Any plans for updates using this version vs the 2.2(rc3) version? Or are
> > they the same? As an added point - why are the Dapper and Edgy versions
> > so far behind 2.2?
> 
> If you're waiting for any useful OOo updates for dapper, you'll probably
> be waiting forever. :)
> 
> On dapper, I use the official OOo packages from openoffice.org.  You can
> remove all of the Ubuntu openoffice packages, then use "alien" to
> install the RPMs provided at openoffice.org.  (You'll also need to
> install the openoffice.org-debian-menus package to get openoffice to
> show up in the main menus.)
> 
> I've been doing this ever since breezy - since I really do need up to
> date versions of Open Office.  So far, I've had zero problems with this
> approach.  (If you want to do a major distribution upgrade, though,
> you'll need to uninstall the official Open Office packages and reinstall
> the Ubuntu ones.)
> 
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