Dmaths and OOo

[zerg]

Hello,

First, I'm sorry for my bad english (I usually speak french).

I've Linux Mint Bianca on my laptop (I use it since Bea). I try to install Dmaths (http://www.dmaths.org), a very good extension for OpenOffice.org, but I've error messages.

In the forum of Dmaths, they say (and they are very serious, they are not "giving the problem to others") that's a problem with the OOo that comes with Bianca (other users of Bianca seems to have the same error). And they tell me to remove completely OOo and re-install it from ".deb" coming from the official OOo.org site.

But they also say that if I do that, the updates will always ask me to update OOo to OOo from Bianca (they tested it).

So, have you any idea of this ? Why Dmaths doesn't work with Bianca ?

- If i re-install OOo from the official site, how can I do to not have updates message (only for OOo because I want other updates, of course) ?

- If I want to remove OOo : how can I do that with Bianca ? And can you tell me exactly what I've to remove (with Synaptic, I suppose) ?

I really need Dmaths. But I really like Linux Mint... so I want to keep both of them !

Tank's a lot,

Zerg
Linux Mint Bianca,
Acer Aspire 3022WLMI

[lavs23]

I second this comment, I tried doing this in edgy before I switched to Linux Mint and had the same problem, that's actually why I switched because the updater was always telling me to update openoffice to 2.0.4 or whatever version is standard. Any help would be much appreciated.

[zerg]

Hi,

What i do :
* remove all package with name "OpenOffice" with synaptic
* download ".deb" from the official site
* Extract
* In the file, right click and "open in a terminal"
* sudo dpkg -i *.deb

The problem is that the system always ask to update OOo :
- If accept : "bad" version of OOo is coming back (bad because no compatibility with Dmath)
- If don't accept : Dmath is OK

So I tried to stop updates for these pacakge with Synaptic, but it's seems to "bug" with Edgy and update is always asked.

So I never accept updates for OOo and Dmath works very good.

Why isn't the official version of OOo proposed with Bianca ? It's a little bit strange, doesn't it ?

Thanks,

Zerg

[grimdestripador]

I just tried this, and it installs just fine.
Both on a clean bianca install
and
On alien converted .rpm files from open office's site. (full version)