[snip] > OOo needs several tools which are too old in Potato, such as bison, to > build. Upstream do builds on machines with custom sets of packages > installed, which is why they do not have the same problem. Their > precompiled version is installable on Potato, so you may like to try that > out. > > If you're wondering why I haven't tried creating Potato packages, it is > because I would need 10 Gig of disk space and 10 hours of build time. > > $ df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 17G 14G 3.1G 81% / > > Gerfried Fuchs has been attempting to build OOo packages on Woody, but > there, one of the build dependencies for our package was too buggy and we > had to backport a fix. He hasn't given up yet :) [snip]
Sorry to jump in, but I'm a bit confused. The OpenOffice.org packages current on http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice installed fine on my woody system....although I may have grabbed some packages from sid as necessary. These were the "extra" packages that were installed upon apt-get install openoffice.org, with lines in sources.list for the UK mirror of the OOo debian mirror and for sid: libfreetype6 libgcc1 libstlport4.5gcc3 openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-l10n-en Are these packages the ones that are too out of date to build or install OOo on woody? I'm just looking for a sanity check here. :) Thanks, David Richmond Beaverton, OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
