Derek,

First, typing skills, not my gift.

Re: openoffice.org, it seems the "deb http://.... found (via Google) on a web page was a bit out dated.  Goggling deeper I found a good address and now have openoffice.org.  Thanks, your questions got me thinking and testing which brought to my attention the bad page address.

Derek and Bill,

Re: emacs.  I found nano already on Debian and it serves well (edit /etc/apt/sources.list sans GUI).  Therefore, emacs has lost some priority.  But, thanks.

BTW, just an observation.  while KDE was resting in the F7, I installed (apt-get) openoffice.org.  Then when I went back into F7 with no close down/ re-start, Openoffice.org was there (KDE).  I didn't expect that.

Thanks again.

George



> -----Original Message-----
> 
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> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:11:00 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: Re: We have Debian (Woody) ... and X ... and Now ... 
> OpenOffice.org
> From: "Derek Neighbors" <derek@gnue.org>
> 
> > 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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> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:44:01 -0700
> From: Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>
> Subject: Re: We have Debian (Woody) ... and X ... and Now ... 
> OpenOffice.org
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> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:11:00AM -0700, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> > "apt-cache search editor|grep emacs" and find a suitable version. :)
> 
> Or even "apt-cache search [--names-only] emacs". :)
> 
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> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    
> http://www.billjonas.com/
> "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door. 
>  You step
> into the Road,  and if you don't keep your feet,  there  is  
> no knowing
> where you might be swept off to."  --  Bilbo Baggins
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