Re: star office debian-correct installation
oppurtunity
could you mention wich commands to follow installing staroffice for debian?
That is that I wasnot able to find a "convention" for installing non-debian
software. Reading dutch manual bij Bezemer. www.dddi.nl (there is a part in
english).
Thanks in advance
Frans Schreuder
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nuhn Yobiznez" <exxcomm@rocketmail.com>
To: "joe golden" <jg1024@hotmail.com>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 9:10 PM
Subject: 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
> >
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> 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
>
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>
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