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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