On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:26:08 +0200, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: >> 1) Has anyone got any experience of Koffice 1.1 on KDE 2.1.2 on >> Potato, that they could share ? > >Not with KOfice 1.1 because... > >> 2) Does anyone know where I could download it from anyway ? > >...if I understand people on this list correct there are no Potato packages. >If I understand people right then KOffice 1.1 heavily needs KDE 2.2 which >needs a lot of new stuff in Debian. The stuff that is in Woody. So making >KOffice 1.1 for Potato would be a big back porting job
Aah - *that* I understand - except for the "KOffice 1.1 needs KDE 2.2" bit. Again, from the KOffice 1.1 release announcement at http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-1.1.phtml : * Required: KOffice 1.1 requires qt-x11-2.2.4 or greater, kdesupport-2.1.x (not needed if using KDE 2.2), and kdelibs-2.1.2 or greater. The KDE packages are available from the KDE ftp servers at http://master.kde.org/stable/2.1.1/distribution/ and http://master.kde.org/stable/2.1.2/distribution/. Please note, however, that kdelibs-2.1.1 will cause some crashes and anti-aliased font problems. Moreover, both kdelibs-2.1.1 and kdelibs-2.1.2 will not properly accept .doc documents in the file selection dialog (see the release notes for a workaround). * Recommended: The KOffice team recommends the use of qt-x11-2.3.1 and kdelibs-2.2. Kdelibs-2.2 provide a few additional features, such as improved printing support (kdeprint), a scanner plugin, and proper recognition of .doc files in the file selector dialog. KOffice 1.1 will not work with versions of Qt older than 2.2.4 or versions of kdelibs older than 2.1.1. All of which says to me that KOffice 1.1 should work fine on KDE 2.1.x - it just will lack some features or functionality. >I too would like both KOffice 1.1 and KDE 2.2 on Potato, but it >seems we will not have either unless we go Woody. From what we hear on this list, KDE 2.2 would be great to have ... BUT I already love my KDE 2.1.1 so much that I'll be perfectly happy to live with it a fair while longer - it's KOffice 1.0 that's the problem - in particular KWord < V1.1 (i.e. without the rewritten text-editing widget) is not really usable. Could someone on this list who's involved with building Debian KOffice debs please just comment on what the situation is ? If in fact the info at www.koffice.org is just plain wrong then I hereby volunteer to take on the task of letting them know they need to update their web pages ;-) The current situation of confused information is making Debian look chaotic. It occurs to me that maybe the score is simply that although the KOffice packages *would* build on Potato without problem, the Debian package builders on this list simply haven't had the time to build them for Potato. If that's true could someone confirm it, and then this particular Debian novice will try and be brave enough to compile KOffice from source. Thanks and a tip o' the hat to all concerned. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- /* Nobody will ever see this error message :-) */ panic("Cannot initialize video hardware\n"); -- Linux 2.0.38, arch/m68k/atari/atafb.c
