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Re: Star Office



On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:53:41AM +0000, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to be able to read, and compose MS compatible documents. I have
> pretty much decided that the path of least resistance for me will be
> Star Office.
> 
> I cannot find it in the 2.2r2 distribution. Is it in there but I am too
> blind to see? If not is it available in deb format somewhere, and if so
> what would be the correct location to add to my "sources.list" to keep
> current?

StarOffice is non-free and not packaged, so you will have to install
it into /usr/local via a tarball.  eventually OpenOffice will be
packaged but i think its still in a rather broken state since its
StarOffice + `sanitation' of patented/stol^H^H^H^Hlicenced code.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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