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Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel



On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:06:00PM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote:
> For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8?  There
> is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that
> it will work on Debian though.  Its a tar.gz file, not
> sure about the depends.

    It will work on Debian, if you install packages from the oldlibs category.
For some reason Corel used X11R5 libraries. My wife is running xwp on her
Debian box. 

    Mike

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