Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

[John Stevenson <John@oa.nl>]

To all in Debian Land,

I have successful installed and run Star Office 5, the only problem I had was
downloading it in the first place....

I am using a fairly standard 'Hamm' install and running an external Xserver for my
Neomagic videocard in my laptop.

I have not had any real problems yet, but have not Star Office for anything more than
loading and editing a few (non-fast save) word97 documents.

I also found the installation easy to do, just followed the instructions.  However I
had the feeling that the registration had not worked, until I realised that you have
to register twice (a little strange but there you go).  You need to register when you
first install Star Office and then when you first run Star Office you can either
register On-line or by printing and sending a registration form.  I used the On-line
registration and it worked first time...

Hope this helps in some way.

John.

Jens Ritter wrote:

> Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net> writes:
>
> > has anyone else managed to get star office 5 to work?  i've been eagerly
> > awaiting the official release of star office 5 because everytime i ran the
> > pre-release it would get to the welcome screen and then lock my entire X
> > display and i had to reboot to get things back under control (i could
> > telnet in and start x that way and i would work okay but as soon as i
> > exited X it would go back to the original frozen display).
> >
> > has anyone else had this problem and solved it?  i would love to run star
> > office but am a little disappointed in the 'ease of install' :-)

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John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl

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