Re: [PLUG] OpenOffice.org 2.2 debs

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew.conkling@gmail.com>]

On 4/2/07, Turgut Durduran <durduran@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If you absolutely have to have updated deb packages before they are packaged
> for your distro, it is a much better idea to take the source deb from the
> current release, replace the orig.tar.gz, and bump the version.  Using
> packages, especially ones as complex as OOo, that aren't packaged properly is
> playing russian roulette with your machine.

I'm not sure how they'd do on Edgy, but there are 2.2 packages for
Ubuntu Feisty: http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=openoffice&searchon=names&subword=1&version=feisty&release=all

If the dependencies don't match, you could edit the debian/control
files in each source package and edit them for Edgy's packages. I
expect that would work just fine.

In general, the Ubuntu Packaging Guide covers this kind of thing
reasonably clearly: https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/packagingguide/C.

Hope this helps,
Andrew Conkling
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