> apt-get install openoffice.org fails with:
>   Reading Package Lists... Done
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   E: Couldn't find package open

You either mis typed your email or pasted your message wrong.  There is no
way I can tell that it would say "Couldn't find package open" if you typed
"apt-get install openoffice.org".  I would expect it to say "Couldn't find
package openoffice.org"  Are you sure you didnt accidently type apt-get
install open office.org?

>      deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ woody
> main contrib

You do not want this if you are running unstable.  Try replacing the word
woody with unstable.  It is not a good idea to mix "versions" (imho)

> apt-get update  seems to have worked.
>
> apt-get install openoffice.org  failed again.

What happened when it failed?

> apt-get install emacs also fails with:
>   Reading Package Lists... Done
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   Package emacs has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency
> and  never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the
> contents of sources.list. E: Package emacs has no installation
> candidate

There is no package called emacs, so of course it can't install it. :)  I
believe they used to have a "dummy" package called emacs that pointed to a
specific version, but you really need to specify.  I think that v21 is
what is in unstable so try "apt-get install emacs21" if that fails try
"apt-cache search editor|grep emacs" and find a suitable version. :)

-Derek


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