Re: Staroffice 4.0

1998-10-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Is there an installer for StarOffice 4.0? no :) ANd there's not likely to be one. A few have started work on it, but there's somehting tricky about it. And 5.0 is just around the corner, so why bother? But i've had no problems using it's own installer; just tell it you want to use /usr/loca

Re: StarOffice 4.0

1998-07-06 Thread Marcelo E. Laurenti
On 6 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for my question, I think it has been asked hundreds of times. > > - Is there any StarOffice 4.0 package installer ? I only found the package > for version 3.x of StarOffice. Yes, download a full version of Staroofice 4.0 from www.stardivis

Re: StarOffice 4.0

1998-07-06 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, Yes, there is a way to review old messages. On www.debian.org's front page there is a link in the left navigation bar to the mailing list archives. I've spent sme time there Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Sorry for my question, I think it has been asked hundreds of tim

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> "GK" == G Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GK> files. The net installlation takes up about 110 Mb, the user about 88 Mb GK> obviously muh is common between the two. As I did not know that and did One of the stardevision developers has set up a homepage with tips for SO4. There is one

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread G. Kapetanios
After all the discussion I tried to install staroffice 4 as well. I have a slightly out-of-date hamm. I tried installing the net installation all went ok. Then I tried installing it on my directory as a user. The first thing to note is that there is a huge duplication of files. The net installlat

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Adam Shand
>Yes, it's still using dselect, but you can use it once. ;-) i can use dselect for most things ... i just prefer not to :-), i find dpkg causes me less pain. >Yes, that is the S)elect function's default behavior. Just update > your package files, choose S)elect, press space to get out o

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Randy Edwards
> as a side note i always use dpkg to upgrade my system (i just don't > like the interface that dselect offers) ... but i'd like to sync my system > to the latest hamm. what is the easiest way to do this with (dselect i > assume)? This is what I'd do: Use dselect, update all of the packa

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Adam Shand
>After getting some replies on this thread, I went ahead and dove in > too. I'm running the latest hamm and extracted the tarball into /tmp. > I then read the read.me, looked at the license, and said, "what the > heck, I'll give it a shot." as a side note i always use dpkg to upgrade

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Randy Edwards
> staroffice 4 on my hamm system just segv's (installed with its own > installer) After getting some replies on this thread, I went ahead and dove in too. I'm running the latest hamm and extracted the tarball into /tmp. I then read the read.me, looked at the license, and said, "what the heck,

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Damir J. Naden
Just my two ccents: I installed StarOffice 4.0 in the /home/damir/ directory by using the install script that came in the original tarball without any problems whatsoever. I don't pretend to know how this works, but it does :-) Also, I have fetched URW fonts (link from the gimp site) and installed

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Adam Shand
> I used the staroffice 4 installer from hamm and had no problems. I had > some unrelated disk problems later and reinstalled hamm. This time I > installed 3.0. hmm, i had problems getting 3.0 to work. it gave me so errors about not having the my environment setup correctly and to run a setup

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Thomas Lakofski wrote: > 4.0? using the staroffice3.deb package? how? > > staroffice 4 on my hamm system just segv's (installed with its own > installer) I used the staroffice 4 installer from hamm and had no problems. I had some unrelated disk problems later and reinstalle

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Thomas Lakofski
4.0? using the staroffice3.deb package? how? staroffice 4 on my hamm system just segv's (installed with its own installer) -thomas On Fri, 1 May 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I've installed both 4.0 and 3.1 in hamm using the debian installer with > minimal problems. I had installed 3.1 into bo b

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've installed both 4.0 and 3.1 in hamm using the debian installer with minimal problems. I had installed 3.1 into bo before the installer package came along and it was a bit strange to configure, but following the instructions to the letter helped. One thing I noticed with the word processor is

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Stephen Carpenter wrote: > Ok ...I installed StarOffice 4.0 a few weeks ago but... > it didn't work... > it would install (will hafta try that trick on the install) > but as soon as I try to do ANYTHING it exist with n error (I think it seg > faults) > did you do this on a bo system? > I am runnin

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ok ...I installed StarOffice 4.0 a few weeks ago but... it didn't work... it would install (will hafta try that trick on the install) but as soon as I try to do ANYTHING it exist with n error (I think it seg faults) did you do this on a bo system? I am running h

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Allan W. Bart, Jr. wrote: > could you tell a bit more about what it takes to install star office and how > do > you like the package. Really, the installation is simple. Just run it. I changed the installation location from ~/Soffice40 to /usr/local/bin/Soffice40, but other than that it was just

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Allan W. Bart, Jr.
Hello, could you tell a bit more about what it takes to install star office and how do you like the package. allan bart Rick Macdonald wrote: > Randy Edwards wrote: > > > >Is there a Debian package to automate the installation of > > StarOffice 4.0? Thanks in advance. > > I just installed

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Randy Edwards wrote: > >Is there a Debian package to automate the installation of > StarOffice 4.0? Thanks in advance. I just installed it last week. The installation is just like a Win95 application: a big blue screen and you just click Next a few times and it's done. I seem to remember tha

Re: Staroffice 4.0 EXTREMELY slow

1998-03-25 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Staroffice 4.0 EXTREMELY slow Date: Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 09:56:02PM +0100 In reply to:Martin Bialasinski Quoting Martin Bialasinski([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Helmut Leinfellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've installed StarOffice 4.0

Re: Staroffice 4.0 EXTREMELY slow

1998-03-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Helmut Leinfellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've installed StarOffice 4.0 (German version) and both the installation > process and the program itself are EXTREMELY slow. Staroffice is a memory hog. I have 48 MB Ram and 32 MB Swap. When starting Staroffice it will eat all my memory+swap (I ju