Description:

I don't think extra/openoffice-base-beta has the correct dependencies. I tried installing OOo on a headless server and using it over ssh with X11 forwarding, but it gives the error:

"no suitable windowing system found, exiting."

I'm not sure exactly what packages or dependencies it needs, so I decided to try to install Firefox, thinking that firefox would probably pull in whatever graphical dependency OpenOffice also needs.

Firefox pulled in these dependencies:
xulrunner-1.9.1.7-1 startup-notification-0.10-1 nss-3.12.4-2 nspr-4.8.2-1 mozilla-common-1.4-1 mime-types-1.0-2 libidl2-0.8.13-1 gtk2-2.18.5-1 shared-mime-info-0.70-2 pango-1.26.2-1 libthai-0.1.12-1 libdatrie-0.2.2-1 cairo-1.8.8-1 xcb-util-0.3.6-1 pixman-0.16.4-1 libxrandr-1.3.0-1 randrproto-1.3.1-1 libxinerama-1.1-1 xineramaproto-1.2-1 libxdamage-1.1.2-1 damageproto-1.2.0-1 libxcomposite-0.4.1-1 compositeproto-0.4.1-1 atk-1.28.0-1 alsa-lib-1.0.22-1

OpenOffice then worked perfectly with these additional dependencies pulled in by Firefox.

I'm willing to do some more work to find out which one of these is needed, but I don't know how, other than just testing each package independently. What should I do?


(Using extra/openoffice-base-beta-3.2.0_ooo320_m8-1 and extra/firefox-3.5.7-1)