Re: Applixware
Chad, figure out how to make a "patch" file for applix and people will
then be able to use alien with the "patch" file on the applix rpm to get a
good deb from it.
Shaya
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
> 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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