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Re: OpenOffice



steef(steefvanduin@zonnet.nl) is reported to have said:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
> 
> >Armands Upmalis(mole@one.lv) is reported to have said:
> > 
> >
> >>why U don't want ot download from www.openoffice.org, there U can get 
> >>newest - 1.1.4! 
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Newest is 2.0 Beta, but it takes a bit of work to get it integrated
> >into Debian.  Thats why there is an OO debian team that does just
> >that.
> >
> >WT
> > 
> >
> 2.0 beta is not too much work
> tar xfvz the downloaded tar.gz file into something like /foo/foo/RPMS
> do as # alien -d *.rpm           after having done cd /foo/foo/RPMS
> and as # dpkg -i --force-overwrite *.deb
> at last as #  chmod 555 /opt/openoffice.org.1.9.xx/program/soffice
> works reasonably. allthough i doubt it is a beta. seems more an alpha.
> 
> try it out for yourself
> 

On a 26K, if I'm lucky, dialup line?  Not on your life.
I'm too old to wait that long.

Wayne
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