Install Openoffice.org on PPC

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:58:08 -0700, Marco Segreto wrote:

>I'm using Ubuntu 8.4 Intrepid.
>I'm trying to install openoffice on an old IMac ppc and get the 
>following error when using apt-get install openoffice.org:
>   The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>      openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-report-builder-bin but it 
>is not installable
>
>I've read previously that this is due to openoffice not being compatible 
>on powerpc. Is there any way to install it such as downloading and 
>compiling from source?
>

Works fine on Jaunty (9.04) on my old TiBook. I recall there was a PPC
release where OO.o was not working, it might have been 8.04.

-jh