Open Office upgrade??

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Saturday 13 February 2010, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 18:44 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
> > On 13 Feb 2010, at 5:56pm, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > I'm having a couple of problems with OpenOffice. I install
> > > just what is available from the repos. I had my share of
> > > grief, when I used Fedora, with too new beta software so I'm
> > > a tad gun shy to install packages not "official". Yet, when I
> > > try to enter a bug report, the site advises me to upgrade
> > > before it'll accept my bug report. <sighs> I have Open Office
> > > 3.01 installed (1:3.01-9) and am running Jaunty.
> > 
> > OO 3.01 is quite far behind the current release, 3.2,
> 
> Ergo the problem. Should this be updated in the repo??
> 
> > so I'm not that surprised that the first response is to upgrade
> > to 3.2 and try again ... Of course jaunty won't get an update
> 
> Why is that?? Karmic destroys my sound system, which works just
> fine, for now.

The point is that wildly adding new software versions to the repo 
will result in bit rot and eventually render a system unusable. This 
way, it will always stay at least close to the quality it was when it 
was shipped - be that high or low.

> > so if you do wish to upgrade you will need to do this yourself.
> 
> That was what I was hoping to avoid.. :) Ric

You can upgrade OOo using the PPA repo:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu jaunty main

As I remember, that upgrade is quite safe.

Oh, and: assuming you're trying to report whatever bugs you run 
across to the OOo bugtracker, you really shouldn't. That's what 
launchpad is for...

  --Reinhold