Re: star office debian-correct installation
--- joe golden <jg1024@hotmail.com> wrote:
> When I last checked Star Office was not a package in
> the stable
> distribution.
>
> For our small school, which I am about to switch
> from NT to Linux, Star
> Office appears to be the answer to our need for a
> bundle of stable office
> programs. We mainly need a smooth switchover from
> MS Word, Excel and
> Internet Explorer.
>
> Is there anything special in the Star Office install
> process that will
> conflict with debian package management? I have
> been very pleased with
> package management with debian. It has made my life
> easier and my system
> more sane. Any references for Debian Star Office
> installs?
>
> Thanks for previous help from list.
> Joe Golden
> The Stevens School
>
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Hi,
The Star Office binary installer from Sun does a
very nice job as a source installer. I have not yet
tried to alien it so it can be recognized by the dpkg
package system but it installs on a debian system w/o
problems.
The only thing that I wish it would do is to make
a default entry in each users home directory
for a system-wide install (installed as root). Right
now for a system-wide install each user must install
it as well choosing an option that does a minimal user
install referencing the system-wide install.
P.S. You might want to change your email website.
Since MickeySloth (micros*ft) bought the service it
has some rather icky riders in the end-user aggreement
(as in anything sent thru the service becomes the
intellectual property of MS). I've been fairly happy
w/ linuxfreemail.com . It doesn't have all the nicer
features of hotmail, but it is a good service that is
almost always up (now that MS has switched from BSD
servers to Win2K w/ IIS 5.0 the reliablity of the
service is somewhat lacking IMHO.
=====
Regards- Tim Stetson Whiskey Sour Nuhn O. Yobiznez
Licq # 14373626
Why?.........Why not?..............Why not try?
The rule of an inquisitive mind.
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