Am 2008-10-17 23:40:55, schrieb Jason C. Wells: > 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.
Sun Microsystems StarOffice ist installed in /opt/ and is static linked.
Which mean, you can install it on ANY systems and not only on Debian.
The disavantage is, that the Sun-Debs are arround 20 MByte bigger
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Michelle Konzack
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