On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:29:10AM +0100, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
On 19/10/06, Paul lists@bulldoghome.com wrote:
/me takes a quick butchers at openoffice.org source... Looks like you'll need version 2.0.4 for complete amd64 support. No -bin package, instead you get -core, -base, and a whole bunch of other stuff... Rather a monster of an application just to write a couple of letters.
Looking at this now, I have the choice of
- downloading and installing each dependent package and the oo itself
one by one 2. finding a backport with this version of oo in and adding it to sources 3. finding an amd testing mirror and upgrading the entire sodding box to testing.
Is that right?
If I add debian testing sources just to download 2.0.4 openoffice then return to the stable amd mirror source, I'm going to break things, right? :-)
You'd need to use pinning to only drag in OO.o from testing, and you'd need to set the default release, the relevant files (which may or may not exist) are: /etc/apt/apt.conf Which would look something like: --- Start of file --- APT::Default-Release "stable"; --- End of file ---
And /etc/apt/preferences Which would be something like: --- Start of file --- Package: openoffice.org Pin: origin www2.backports.org Pin-Priority: 999 --- End of file ---
You might need to add more packages to that ;)
Cheers,