Re: StarOffice 5

[Peter Berlau <pberlau@muenster.de>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:19:17PM +0000, Frankie wrote:
> Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian?
first You must get a copy of so5.
one way ist to download it from stardivision
than You have to follow a obscure password-identification, however,
this means You must be registred , became a password from stardivision
and after that Your "trial-version" changes to full-version.
After all that it runs very slow and is mostly stable, sometimes
my s05 is "core dumped-blown away "
> 
> there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (like there is for
> SO3)?
I don't know but I think there will be no debian - package, becauce the
star-devision have a very strange licencing-policy
> 
> should I just use setup as per the Staroffice instructions, and if so, I
> don't want to have to install it once for every user, so would I use the
> network installation as root?
afaik there is only a personal edition for freely using, 
a network version must be payed, but if so and You should 
have a look to koffice. I've read it comes up in short time and is
very usefull.

cu
  Peter

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Peter Berlau 
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