On Friday 17 October 2008 11:40:55 pm Jason C. Wells wrote: > Is it advisable to install non-Debian provided packages? > > For example .deb files are out for openoffice3 but they haven't made > their way to lenny yet. It seems like the Sun provided .deb files > aren't quite so slick with handling dependencies. That or I am missing > some important bit of understanding on how .debs work. > > Thanks, > Jason
I installed OpenOffice.org3 in Lenny with no problems. The Debian installer sends files to /opt, and so avoids overwriting any existing packages. The tarball is just a pack of .deb files for the individual applications in the suite, which have a non-obvious dependency order. It would have been nice to include an installation script, but lacking that, I simply went to the untarred directory and ran dpkg -i *deb Works well for me, ymmv. Lee -- Lee Glidewell | PGP key: D5D686A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
