Does anyone know when Openoffice 3 will be available in Ubuntu Repositories?

[James Tappin]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:15:20 -0700
NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

N> On 10/03/2008 07:08 AM, James Tappin wrote:
N> > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:15:09 -0400
N> > "John Toliver" <john.toliver at gmail.com> wrote:
N> > 
N> > JT> Based on what you said though, I may go ahead and upgrade to
N> > JT> the RC3.0 and be done with it.
N> > 
N> > Sadly, it appears that impress still has no effective means of
N> > imbedding movies (JMF is a right pain to install and doesn't work).
N> > 
N> 
N> JMF does indeed work. Perhaps you simply haven't installed it
N> properly and set up your class paths.

Turns out JMF needs java 6 to work properly, and I had java 5 installed
-- still no go with OOo yet though, and the set of codecs looks to be
very limited (e.g. no DiVX).




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