"John Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I recently picked up PC PLUS magazine, it has great Linux coverage > this issue. > StarOffice and Netscape 4.7 for Linux Plus loads of other Linux > software as > well. It also has an interview with Colin Fenwick, VP for RedHat > Europe. I > almost choked when I read the following quote from him. "There are > four major > linux distributors and we are the only one that hasn't added > proprietary > extensions." I realise Corel has 'Lizard', but I was wondering if he > doesn't > consider Debian to be a major distributor, or what proprietary > extensions has > Debian introduced to Linux? I am not Anti-RedHat, I just prefer the > .deb package > format to the rpm format. I can't wait to install StarOffice and > netscape on my > system, unfortunately they are rpm's : ( If I use alien, will it > update my menus > for me? I installed an older version of Netscape using the install > script > provided by Netscape, but it didn't update my menu and I have to run > Netscape by > hand at the moment. I have a similar problem with Acrobat reader. I've > read the > doc's concerning menu's, but right now they are just over my head and > I don't > get much time at my system to try to puzzle it out right now. Just > thought I'd > share this with you. >
I too bought this month's PCPLUS - for those of you outside of Europe PCPLUS is a British computer mag which covers Linux as well as Windows. In the UK we now have a new magazine called 'Linux Answers', first issue was out on 27 October. It came with Corel WordPerfect 8, RedHat 6.0 plus loads of other Linux software on the free CDROM. I installed StarOffice 5.1a from the PCPLUS CDROM. If you do 'alien -i -d /cdrom/linux/starof~1/starof~1.rpm', substituting your path to your cdrom, you should get a Debian package created and installed. It does take a long time, so be patient. You will not automatically get a menu entry created - at least I didn't. Easy enough to do manually, though. I must say that the 5.1a version of StarOffice is a lot better than 5.0 - faster and more stable. -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato)
