<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks this worked. Now from the shell I type oowriter for instance and openoffice1.1 is fired up. This is not what I expected as I have just installed openoffice2.0 via the dpkg -i *deb command. Alfred, <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">conver first all the rpm files and tell dpkg to install it $ sudo alien *rpm $ sudo dpkg -i *deb </pre> </blockquote> Ryan Escarez wrote: <blockquote cite="midbba9c1120510272239ndc9aa1erdc22b6e8f3c8f6bc@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 10/28/05, Alfred Vahau <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Alf.Vahau@upng.ac.pg"><Alf.Vahau@upng.ac.pg></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, I downloaded OpenOffice 2.0 and unpacked it into a temporary directory. When I attempted to install the rpm packages, it failed and instead a message appeared pointing to the use of alien program. This program was ran on the rpm packages and converted them to debian ones with extension deb. I run the dpkg --install <package_name> but this failed to find the package. I also tried use apt-get install but this failed to find the packages too. I looked up the sources.list file under /etc/apt and found that the reference was to packages on the CD Rom (in my case the Warty distribution). I commented out that line and inserted a line with the path to the temporary directory containing the openoffice2.0 files. It looked like this: deb /path/to openofficef files I executed the apt-get and dpkg --install commands again but these fail to find the packages. How can I tell apt-get to look in the temporary directory and install the openoffice2.0 files? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> as you download OO.o for manual installation you don't have to use apt, instead tell dpkg to do it, in the first error you are trying to install a rpm package wich is need to be converted into deb files. the following work around will solve your day. conver first all the rpm files and tell dpkg to install it $ sudo alien *rpm $ sudo dpkg -i *deb hth -- Ryan Escarez CEBB F1E4 1E39 EC48 F05D 6B72 9C11 DD88 5E39 E471 $ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x5E39E471 main(k){float i,j,r,x,y=-16;while(puts(""),y++<15) for(x=0;x++<84;putchar(" .:-;!/>)|&IH%*#"[k&15])) for(i=k=r=0;j=r*r-i*i-2+x/25,i=2*r*i+y/10,j*j+i*i<11&&k++<111;r=j);} </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>