Glenn Stuart Morrissey wrote:
hi there all
I have just downloaded Open Office version 3.0 (64bit) onto my acer (Im running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy). I was expecting a program that would install the applications on my computer but there wasn't one. I attempted to run synaptic Package Manager to pick up the downloaded DEBS packages, but it doesn't appear to have recognised the newer packages, only the older 1:2.4.1 packages.
Synaptic (And all apt variants and frontends) use remote repositories - they don't act on manually downloaded files. A repository could be on the same machine as you are running, but it still needs to be a specially crafted repository If you're manually downloading software for Ubuntu, you can still install it of course, but if it's not a Ubuntu specific .deb file it may be a lot of effort to get it installed. IF you have downloaded the right Ubuntu .deb file (eg, right ubuntu version, right architecture), then you should be able to install it with the "dpkg -i filename" command in a shell, where filename is the name of the .deb file you just downloaded. Or you can install gdebi, the gnome dpkg interface, and if you double click on the .deb file in nautilus it should install at that point.