[812] in athena10
Re: Open Office in locker- now and going forward
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sat Jan 10 10:34:03 2009
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:32:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> I'm at the point where I would normally make Open Office 3 the default
> version for Athena 9 (it's been available to 9.4 (and 10) users in the
> ooffice_v3.0 locker for some time, but not as the default version; the
> current 9.4 default is 2.4.2). However the latest version in the
> Ubuntu repositories even on Intrepid is 2.4.1, and I'm presuming that
> ooffice 3 won't get into Intrepid at all.
I searched www.launchpad.net for [openoffice ubuntu], and got the
following bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/267376
OpenOffice 3.0.1, due to release "mid-January", will be in
intrepid-backports. Should we decide we don't want to wait, 3.0.0-6 is in
a PPA (personal package archive) maintained by two Canonical employees
working on OpenOffice packaging. I assume you could just copy their
packages unmodified into our apt repo, and add openoffice.org (>= 3.0) as
a dependency of debathena-thirdparty-something.
> If I don't switch the default, both Athena 9.4 and Athena 10 users will
> continue to have the option (as now) of running ooffice 3 by running:
>
> ooffice -ver 3.0 (Athena 9.4)
> add -f ooffice; ooffice -ver 3.0 (Athena 10)
On a complete tangent, out of curiosity, do you have stats on the number
of users who use -ver flags?
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
