On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:58:17 -0500
Mike Burrows <testermike@???> wrote:
> > > > Works best in openoffice.org-impress, but I believe other
> > > > presentation packages are available ;)
> > > >
> > > Hi Rob. I think I'm missing something here. This .odp file
> > > keeps opening in writer even when I try and load it from
> > > impress. Tried to insert it and that didn't work either.
> > >
> >
> > What version of OO.o are you using. AIUI OO.o 2.x will open odp
> > files, but OO.o version 1.x may not.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Al.
>
> Just tried to update to a 2.x version of Openoffice.org but the
> best I can do is
>
> Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main openoffice.org
> 1.1.3-9sarge6
>
> am I missing a mirror from my sources list perchance?
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
Hi Mike
your problem isn't the sources.list per se but the fact that
openoffice ver 2.0 isn't in 'stable' so you need a backports source.
Have a look at this URl
http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php
--
John Lewis
Debian Linux with Geneweb genealogy application
