Installing OpenOffice.org 2.0 for Debian

Posted by tadelste on Nov 9, 2005 9:20 AM EDT
Really Linux; By Jon Watson, host of The Linux User Show podcast 		Mail this story
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While the recent release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 (OOo) was eagerly anticipated by the open source community, it has been received with some chagrin. The OOo group released 2.0 in rpm format only. Needless to say, this has some non-rpm GNU/Linux users up in arms. What if you're a poor user like me who needs a non-rpm install? Will I ever get to run OOo 2.0?

Yes! Take heart, for what follows is a tale of how I installed OOo 2.0 on my Kanotix Debian box.

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WTF? OO.org 2 is in the Debian repo already! OmegaBLK 1 1,283 Nov 9, 2005 12:38 PM

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