Re: help

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

Last time I was at sun.com getting staroffice, there were sources available as well.  It's pretty big bunch of source or binaries, hey it's supposed to compete with Office, right?  ~:^)  The binary that you download comes packaged as a self installing binary, something you don't see too often on Linux.  I don't recall seeing it for PPC, but I would say that there are a couple of other options in Debian which are viable, IMHO.  Two are: abiword and lyx (OK, I've tried lyx, it was sufficient for me, but I'm not all that demanding on word processors, also it is a frontend for LaTex).  Heck, "netscape -composer" does vitually everything I need.

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Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:27:01PM -0200, Leandro Dutra wrote:
> > > From: Chris Bryan [mailto:acidrain82@mac.com]
> > >
> > >
> > > As far as word processing goes, I think StarOffice is the most popular
> > > choice for Linux in general... if you think about it, let me
> > > know if you get
> > > it installed, because I'm not sure about compatibility :)
> >
> >       StarOffice 5.2 I think doesn't have an Linux PPC binary or a source
> > distribution; but the alpha version of StarOffice 6, called OpenOffice is
> > available.
> 
> What license doesit come under ?
> is it sufficiently free to be a debian package ?
> And if not, is there some project fro a installer deb or something such ?
> 
> And if not, what is the best way of installing it ?
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 
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