Re: Applixware

["Chad D. Zimmerman" <chad@dabcc-www.nmsu.edu>]

On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote:

> In article <slrn602rt4.dn3.fax@bartlet.df.lth.se> you wrote:
> : On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:56:55 -0400, Tom Malloy <tmalloy@idt.net> wrote:
> : > Is anyone using redhats applixware on debian?  How is it?  The install
> : > difficult? Is it worth buying?  I want to migrate away from msoffice and
> : > use linux exclusively if possible.  Thanks
> : > 
> : 
> : Try out StarOffice before you decide which office suit to use together
> : with Linux. I have found it very nice ... and version 3.1 is free if
> : you use it in a non-commercial purpose.
> : 
> : Check it out at:
> : http://www.stardiv.de/
> : 
> : I don't think you'll find any difficulties installing Applixware. If
> : I'm right there is an non-rpm installation included on the cd.
> 
> I've had a play around with StarOffice; the main reason I didn't get it
> is because I don't have a 'Net connection at home, and the prospect of
> lugging everything back on 1.44MB floppies doesn't really appeal. I've
> forked out $99AUS for the student edition of Applixware; it's nice. Very
> nice. My only beef: the non-rpm installation tries to install everything
> into /opt. Not a good move, especially since my 30MB root partition only
> had 15MB free....

Use the .rpm and run `alien applix*.rpm`, after some quik debugging and
installing dpkg-dev from hamm and 3 hours of building ... slow system
here.  I installed the created .deb and have been using it all day ...
very nice .. better than Star Office which had quit wanting to run at all.
 
> I ended up test driving Redhat for a while on my /home partition (don't
> ask, please); whilst I was dding that, I installed Applixware somewhere
> in /usr/local. (under Debian, that would have been /home/usr/local/ ...
> as I said, don't ask :)
> 
> Tar it up, untar it into the Debian /usr/local heirachy, and everything is
> happy happy joy joy. (with some script editing, of course.) One of these
> days, I might get around to doing some work on an installation package. In
> my Copious Spare Time, naturally. ;)

I have the applix.deb now .. even though it is 37MB .. no way in hades am
I gona delete it ... don't wana go through all that alien stuff again.

chad

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Chad D. Zimmerman				    chad@dabcc-www.nmsu.edu
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New Mexico State University
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