Re: staroffice package

2001-05-18 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Thomas Deselaers wrote: > Is there an deb available? OpenOffice is under gpl, isn't it? > > thomasd No htere isn't. You can download the source or a binary with installer similar to the SO5.2 version. But the installer works great i never had any problems. Frank

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-18 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hey and for all of you who want to be at the bleeding edge: download > openoffice from openoffice.org. Thats StarOffice v6! > > cheers, > Raffaele > But it's not very stable yet and quite buggy as well. I have it at home and fiddle around with it but I would not recomm

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-18 Thread Thomas Deselaers
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:37:51AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hey and for all of you who want to be at the bleeding edge: download > openoffice from openoffice.org. Thats StarOffice v6! Is there an deb available? OpenOffice is under gpl, isn't it? thomasd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.desela

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:07:58PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > I just installed it today with out doing this. I just ran the installer > > from a > > directory that I created in my home directory. I've only tried the word > > processor out so far but it works grea

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Friday 18 May 2001 00:07, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > b3 wrote: > > The install can be a bit tricky - make sure you run the installer > > first as root with /net, as this will do a "network install" - then > > switch to a normal user and run the installer to get the user stuff > > going. > > I just

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:07:58PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > I just installed it today with out doing this. I just ran the installer from > a > directory that I created in my home directory. I've only tried the word > processor out so far but it works great. What's going to be broken becau

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
okay thanks every one for all the advise. I have just donwloaded the complete instalation file ( all the 97 megas) and will istall. I thougth about that when tried to find the package in dselect; I was just trying to make sure that there wasnt an easier/clean way to install. regards J.A.Serralheir

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread p
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:07:58PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > b3 wrote: > > > The install can be a bit tricky - make sure you run the installer > > first as root with /net, as this will do a "network install" - then > > switch to a normal user and run the installer to get the user stuff > > go

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
> What's going to be broken because I didn't do a "network install?" If you're the only user who will be using it, nothing. If you have more than one user on your computer that will be using it, then you will have to do another install for that user, and that will take up a lot of disk space.

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread Andrew D Dixon
b3 wrote: > The install can be a bit tricky - make sure you run the installer > first as root with /net, as this will do a "network install" - then > switch to a normal user and run the installer to get the user stuff > going. I just installed it today with out doing this. I just ran the install

Re: staroffice package

2001-05-17 Thread b3
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:57:37PM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > Hi, is there any staroffice package available from debian? StarOffice is cost-free commercial software that (AFAIK) isn't packaged for Debian. You can download it from Sun, however, and it does work under Debian. The install can