Installing OpenOffice.org 2 under Debian Sarge

Hello NG,

I have got a Debian system and most things work fine. But I'd like to
install OOo 2.0. I know that this is not available by default to avoid
any bugs but in this special case I need it because I have some
documents in OpenDocument format which I'd written when was using
Windows all the time. Now I want to use Debian for at least all my
business work. I am a bit confused what is the best way to install it.

I've downloaded the RPM package and changed it into Debian package with
alien. But after installing it I wasn't able to start it. There was just
no start file. Neither in the Gnome menu (this is what I expected due
the RPM format includes less details than Debian packages) nor could I
found any executable in folders like /bin and the last is what seems
really weird to me. However, I tried to install it from
www.backports.org. The idea sounds great but I didn't manage to get it
working. I've followed the instructions I could get but apt still
remarked some packages (writer, math and so on) would fail. This seemed
to be reasonable to me but other packages (which I didn't know) were
labeled as "not installable". That was the point where I gave up.


Could you please tell me what is the easiest and safest way to get OOo
2? I really need but seem still to unexpierenced to install it. But
please don't tell me to take another distro. I've already done a lot
with Debian like compiling my own kernel, setting up and FTP server and
other stuff but all this belongs to a server machine which was just
experiment.

Daniel Böhmer, Germany

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